Predicament Quotes

• I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Important
  • Black

• At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Done
  • Think
  • Predicament

• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  

  Afshin Molavi
  • Inquiry
  • Iranian
  • Predicament

• Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

  

  Paul de Man
  • Death
  • Name
  • Predicament

• How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.

  

  Barack Obama, Sr.
  • Truth
  • Predicament
  • Kenya

• Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Man
  • Gods
  • Created

• When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.

  

  Xu Zhimo
  • Poetry
  • Poverty
  • Predicament

• There’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Running
  • Difference
  • Predicament

• Our current predicament cannot be wholly blamed on a suffocating media sector. It cannot be wholly blamed on filter bubbles, trapping citizens in the prison of their own worldviews. It cannot be wholly blamed on Russian sabotage of our presidential election. Hard not to notice, though, that all three of those disabling conditions can be laid at the feet of Facebook.

  

  Bob Garfield
  • Prison
  • Facebook
  • Blamed

• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Forgiving
  • Redemption
  • Predicament