„What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.“
— Ursula K. Le Guin American writer 1929 - 2018
“The Day Before the Revolution” p. 272 (originally published in Galaxy, August 1974)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
„Queer people exist. Choosing not to accept them is not an option.“
— Dan Howell British video blogger and radio personality 1991
Quelle: Basically I'm Gay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrwMja_VoM0, 13 June, 2019
„Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.“
— Reinhold Niebuhr American protestant theologian 1892 - 1971
— Kim Stanley Robinson American science fiction writer 1952
Quelle: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 4, “Homesick” (p. 205)
„Make your choice and accept the consequences.“
— Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964
Quelle: Blue-Eyed Devil
„Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange
If we accept them we will never win.“
— George S. Patton United States Army general 1885 - 1945
Stanza 1 of "Absolute War" a poem composed by Patton in July 1944, during Operation Cobra as quoted in The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson p. 492
Kontext: Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange
If we accept them we will never win.
Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic
We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
„Every statesman must accept the choice of the people.“
— Petro Poroshenko Ukrainian businessman and politician 1965
Interview to "Ukrains'ka Pravda" https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2019/07/29/7222233/ (29 July 2019)
„But to be a poet is to accept the responsibility of speaking the truth!“
— Nick Drake (poet) British writer 1961
Quelle: The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011), Ch. 2
Kontext: I see I have shocked you all a little. But to be a poet is to accept the responsibility of speaking the truth! No matter what the cost to my personal safety [... ] in matters of men and this world. I’m a poet, not a complete fool…
„I will accept any choice of the people, because it is a democracy.“
— Petro Poroshenko Ukrainian businessman and politician 1965
Speech on debates https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-47926425 during the election campaign in 2019 (14 April 2019)
— Friedrich Engels German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher 1820 - 1895
Quelle: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845), p. 112
— Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997
Quelle: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1
„No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.“
— Napoleon Hill American author 1883 - 1970
— Bell Hooks American author, feminist, and social activist 1952
p. 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=uvIQbop4cdsC&pg=PA1.
(1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
„To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.“
— Colette 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873 - 1954
Paris From My Window (1944)
