It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially people would question but once patriotism got stirred up the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue where patience honor sweet humility and calm fortitude take root and strongly flourish.
The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature in society in man himself.
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement and Freud and Jung and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
What constitutes a real live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days and men each one of whom is a valuable unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
The snow itself is lonely or if you prefer self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music great melodies great hooks. But on top of it it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
Country music is important to me and I love it but it's not my whole life.
Music is really something that makes people whole.
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf Cream and Led Zeppelin but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very very rich and complex and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through and you make of it a dance a dirge or a life march as you will.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.