„For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?“
bell hooks
afroamerikanische Literaturwissenschaftlerin und Feministin 1952Ähnliche Zitate
— Marilyn Ferguson American writer 1938 - 2008
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Thirteen, The Whole- Earth Conspiracy
— Brené Brown US writer and professor 1965
Quelle: The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
— Charles Spurgeon British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834 - 1892
The Soul-Winner (1895)
— Erich Maria Remarque, buch Im Westen nichts Neues
Paul to the corpse of a French man he has just killed, Ch. 9
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
— Gaston Bachelard French writer and philosopher 1884 - 1962
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
„Touch me, hold me.
How my open arms ache!
Try to fall for me.“
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
„The human capacity for eternal transformation is the antidote to unbearable suffering and tragedy.“
— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
Other
— Wendell Berry author 1934
"Compromise, Hell!" Orion magazine (November/December 2004) http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/147/.
Kontext: We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
— Krzysztof Kieślowski Polish film director and screenwriter 1941 - 1996
As quoted in "Kieślowski's Many Colours" by Patrick Abrahamsson, in Oxford University Student newspaper (2 June 1995) — republished at Musicolog.com http://www.musicolog.com/kieslowski_manycolours.asp#.Vt_PAsdSj8s
Kontext: If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word "love" has the same meaning for everybody. Or "fear", or "suffering". We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.
— Greta Thunberg Swedish climate change activist 2003
Twitter post https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1076890299773976582 (23 December 2018)
2018
„We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.“
— Brené Brown US writer and professor 1965
Quelle: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
— James Morrison English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984
Broken Strings
Song lyrics, Undiscovered (James Morrison album) (2006)
