#formed

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice. ↗

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#do the right thing #hostages #informed #people #prejudice

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#great #ideas #important #judgement #line

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#executives #formed #guarantee #haven #lots

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #fbi #free #haven #impose

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#best #democracy #electorate #engaged #informed

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids. ↗

— Michael Behe

#amino #basic #called #chain #discrete

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#angle #approaching #excited #formed #got

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#being #believe #better #formed #gangs