#affirm

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#applause #because #go #into #people

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#affirm #aim #human #human life #improve

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#life_affirming #philosophy #death

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#affirmative #also #believe #disenfranchised #good

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contemplation #degraded #faith #into #made

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#believe #fail #god #i #i believe

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#also #buy #country #does #faith

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#color #columbus #contemporary #dimensions #especially

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. ↗

— David Hume

#contradiction #implies #intelligible #less #more

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled. ↗

— Spike Lee

#affirmative #affirmative action #arrived #black #black and white