#we cannot

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. ↗

— Carl von Ossietzky

#asleep #cannot #conscience #our #own

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#defend #destruction #eventually #fact #inescapable

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#cannot #give #profit #we cannot #wisdom

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#anything #being #cannot #conceive #dissolved

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#alone #anxious #because #been #bring

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#between #both #cannot #caused #change

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#air #because #cannot #deny #existence

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#budget #build #cannot #deficits #growing

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#attitude #cannot #certain #certain way #change

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #context #describe #designed #form