#we cannot

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. ↗

— Walter Scott

#ask #cannot #cease #did #each

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ↗

— William Shatner

#cannot #everything #i #i think #life

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#accused #afford #aggression #arab #because

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#cannot #discerned #eyes #fine #immaterial

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work. ↗

— Andy Stern

#change #country #enough #group #having

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ↗

— Ben Sweetland

#cannot #hold #light #our #own

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ↗

— George Berkeley

#complain #dust #first #raised #see

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#close #closest #closest friend #death #died

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#humanity #leaves #live #others #ought