Quotes About Awareness

It placed its finger roughly on sore places.

blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

As for cognitive empathy there is, it appears, no shortage of people in the world who can unwittingly offend, misunderstand and steamroller over the delicate signals of others, all while maintaining the self-perception that they are unsurpassedly sensitive to subtle social cues.

It just goes to show. There's ten people in the world and the rest is ghosts and mirrors.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

Working together, as parents, neighbors, and law enforcement officials, we must dedicate ourselves to preventing senseless violence in our communities.

If you didn't want to know things, you didn't have to know them. Things didn't become facts until someone actually spoke them. Until then, you could just go on acting just the way you had been acting and even if you suspected there was something that would change everything, you didn't have to acknowledge it; you didn't have to let it in.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (????-?????????). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

She passed through them without a glance. The living have no time to look at death; they cannot see it even if they try.

La scelta di chiudersi in casa sbarrando le finestre per non vedere, abbandonando ogni cura per la cosa pubblica è rimasta del resto fino ai nostri giorni, in particolare in quelle regioni meridionali diventate preda della criminalità.

Quanto più aumena la consapevolezza storica, tanto più si rinvigoriscono il pensiero critico e la vita democratica di un paese, e i fondamentalismi di qualunque tipo dimostrano la propria debolezza culturale e la devastazione mentale che operano.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Faith is like a radar that sees through the fog.

there was no way to keep from knowing. Often in the evening, turning the dial on the radio, we would pick up a voice from Germany. The voice did not talk, or even shout. It screamed. Oddly,

Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known would

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.

Drop your lower jaw!" Mr. Moorman called down the long room. "Keep your mouth open and it will save your eardrums.

or when letters to Jewish suppliers in Germany came back marked "Address Unknown," we still managed to believe that it was primarily a German problem. "How long are they going to stand for it?" we said. "They won't put up with that man for long.