#stance

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#catharsis #expressed #grassroots #history #how

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#circumstances #creature #creatures #free #free agents

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#actions #character #choose #circumstance #deal

Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#been #effective #even #group #helped

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#difficult #go #important #life #make

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before. ↗

— Brian Eno

#before #called #combination #established #fairly

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#mind #posture #proper #reflect #stance

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences. ↗

— Brian Eno

#differences #distances #drag #i #idea

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America. ↗

— Bono

#america #anything #britain #british #came

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. ↗

— Robert Bork

#believe #classes #highly #influential #intellectual