Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

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• Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Why
  • Society
  • Giving

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nature

• The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Never
  • Will
  • Become

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Society
  • Diversity
  • Ethnic

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Cheating

• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Help
  • Society
  • You

• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Father

• The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Picture

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Survive

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Society
  • Law

• Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Daily
  • Commitment

• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nature

• Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of, in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand, and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

  

  Dorothy Dix
  • Society
  • Criminal
  • Citizenship

• I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.'

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Country
  • Become
  • Exploration

• For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Commitment
  • Auto

• Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this.

  

  Peter Farrelly
  • Team

• Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Become