#we cannot

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#cannot #country #disintegrating #into #pieces

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#find #joy #love #neither #never

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cannot #fear #know #live #masks

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#been #cannot #clear #course #future

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#cannot #content #desire #each #fictions

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#cannot #care #care costs #city #continue

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#delight #delivered #devouring #ourselves #we cannot

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#afford #because #cannot #childbirth #children

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#afford #allow #black #cannot #children

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#cannot #eyes #let us #reality #see