Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.
Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.
It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.
Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is , and acted upon, the male is , the mover.
We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.
