"It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other."

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Source : Sara Maitland (2014). “A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search For A Joyful Theology”, p.179, Henry Holt and Company

Sara Maitland

#Humanity Quotes #Collaboration Quotes #Common Quotes

“Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.”
“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
“Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin (1920). “The Centralia Conspiracy”, p.1, Library of Alexandria
“Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.”
“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passÃ©. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to change his life. We are propelled by the ideology of the self-made man: we work more, we consume more and in the end we consume ourselves. The consequences are burnout, bulimia and other lifestyle diseases.”
“I think on both sides of the pond, there are pros and cons to TV and film, and I think that there are things the British people can learn from the Americans and things the Americans can probably learn from us when it comes to the acting industry. But the main thing here in the USA is everything is just a hell of a lot bigger. The sets are bigger, the casts are bigger, the crews are bigger.”

Source : Source: www.theroot.com
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”

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