#realities

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#bubonic #character #extraordinarily #fact #ideologies

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#blow #face #facing #froth #fully

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit. ↗

— William Shirley

#cannot #convey #fully #greatness #human

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#cities #documenting #i #latin #latin america

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. ↗

— Richard Wright

#copied #hearts #men #prisons #realities

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. ↗

— Jones Very

#hamlet #macbeth #next #realities #those

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#creative #i #into #live #necessary

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. ↗

— James Allen

#acorn #angel #bird #dream #dreams

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#ago #day #five #good #had