#existence

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#citizens #concessions #durable #existence #far

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

#already #apart #called #excited #exist

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#government #however #i #privilege #remind

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#condition #existence #life #mastery #nature

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#existence #get #hidden #hypocrisy #i

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#admit #always #brutality #element #existence

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#existence #flux #future #intensely #mobile

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#anti-semitism #aware #because #being #existence

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beverage #book #comfortable #couch #distractions