#we cannot

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. ↗

— Max Lerner

#brutal #cannot #culture #die #live

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#also #apart #being #cannot #caused

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#established #falsehood #know #love #obscure

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#afford #because #cannot #childbirth #children

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#afford #allow #black #cannot #children

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#cannot #eyes #let us #reality #see

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#appeal #argument #cannot #change #each

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#achievement #aspirations #broad #cannot #community

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#cannot #centuries #defenders #freedoms #granted

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#cannot #certainly #civilization #effort #example