George Pattison Quotes

Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.

George Pattison

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• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Train
  • Gone
  • Obligation

• You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Opportunities
  • Obligation

• Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • Exposed
  • Exceptions

• It could make a substantial difference. The estimates ... have suggested that you might be able to cut mortality roughly in half.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Difference
  • Mortality
  • Estimates

• If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

  

  Alveda King
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Obligation

• I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Ignore
  • Obligation

• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Trying
  • Buddhist
  • Buddhism

• People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • People
  • May
  • Wish

• If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Mean

• The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • World
  • Buddhism
  • Peculiar

• Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Philosophy
  • Facts
  • Buddhism

• We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Words
  • Knowledge

• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Trade

• There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Invention
  • Obligation

• The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Honor
  • Judgement

• Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Patience
  • Clear
  • Arises

• A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Helping

• Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • God
  • Children
  • Support

• Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.

  

  George Pattison
  • Obligation
  • Buddhism
  • Mortality