„What a horrible system we had. How blind we were.“

To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

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deutscher Politiker, MdR und Kriegsverbrecher 1900 - 1946

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— Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967

Quelle: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.77

„How blinde is pride! what eagles we are still
In matters that belong to other men,
What beetles in our own!“

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— George Chapman, All Fools

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„Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.“

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— Karen Marie Moning author 1964

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„The question suddenly came into my head, 'And if we were all blind?' And then immediately, as if answering myself, 'But we are all blind.“

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— José Saramago, buch Blindness

Um dia, sentado à mesa, pensei: E se fôssemos todos cegos? Imediatamente me veio a resposta: Nós somos todos cegos.
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„What can we know, or what can we discern,
When error chokes the windows of the mind,
The diverse forms of things, how can we learn,
That have been ever from our birthday blind?“

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— John Davies (poet) English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569 1569 - 1626

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„How can we design improvement in large systems without understanding the whole system, and if the answer is that we cannot, how is it possible to understand the whole system?“

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— C. West Churchman American philosopher and systems scientist 1913 - 2004

C. West Churchman, Challenge to Reason (1968), p. 2; cited in '" C. West Churchman — 75 years" by Werner Ulrich, in Systems Practice (December 1988), Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 341-350
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„He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw.“

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— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981

On painter Rufino Tamayo.
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Kontext: He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that — great good God, think of it — we're alive, and on our way to weather, from the sea to the hot interior, to watermelon there, a bird at night chasing a child past flowering cactus, a building on fire, barking dogs, and guitar-players not playing at eight o'clock, every picture saying, "Did you live, man? Were you alive back there for a little while? Good for you, good for you, and wasn't it hot, though? Wasn't it great when it was hot, though?"

„we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.“

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— Daniel Kahneman, buch Thinking, Fast and Slow

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„How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!“

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— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914

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— Henry James, buch The Turn of the Screw

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„The sins of our educational system (Catholic): How we ourselves were wronged by it and how we wronged others in its name. What people call moral training is really a political activity - representing a particular community and its vested interests, which is why it is so liable to political sins and blunders.“

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— Ida Friederike Görres Austrian writer and noble 1901 - 1971

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„A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see“

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— Terry Tempest Williams American writer 1955

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„Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.“

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„What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.“

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— H. Havelock Ellis British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859 - 1939

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„We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.“

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— Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

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„To remake meat is how we solve climate change. Remaking meat is how we prevent the next pandemic. Remaking meat is how we take antibiotics out of the food system.“

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— Bruce Friedrich Member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 1969

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„There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.“

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— Paul Virilio French philosopher 1932 - 2018