Ronald Goldman famous quotes

04-26-2025

Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.
-- Ronald Goldman

#Our World #World #Knows
As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.
-- Ronald Goldman

#Religious #Stress #Caring
The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.
-- Ronald Goldman

#Pride #Gay #Sick

We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....
We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue...that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,
If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.
You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.
I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis.

Ronald Goldman famous quotes

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