"We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it."

-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#Illusion Quotes #Determine Quotes

“Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.”
“Art must not serve might.”

Source : Karel Capek's statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted in Ivan Klima "Karel Capek: Life and Work", 2002.
“There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
“Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the toss and then she will respect you', the trouble is that sort of advice to the English middle-class male of a certain age doesn't actually help us very much because we've always been brought up to believe that it's extremely rude to shout back at women.”
“Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.”
“We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.”

Source : "Think big on renewables scale" by David J. C. MacKay, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.
“We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.”
“There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”

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