Arthur Peacocke Quotes

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

Arthur Peacocke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 29, 1924 - October 21, 2006

Topics

GoodSelfishHumanityValuesSocial

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

Jimmi Simpson

ThinkConfusedYouSometimesHuman

The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy?

Robert Nozick

PoliticalQuestionsPhilosophyWhy

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Matthew Lesko

SocietyTalkingInformationNowBeen

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Andy Warhol

LifeThoughtTelevisionLivingRight

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

John Sherman Cooper

PoliceSchoolTexasFactsBagHalf

I love this game. I love to have fun. You're playing a sport that you've loved since you were a kid, you get paid for it, and even if you're 0-for-20 or 0-for-30, you still have fun.

Miguel Cabrera

LoveFunHave FunGameLovedYou

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

Joseph Lancaster

EducationPurposeI AmSocietyPoor

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

Brian Eno

LifeGoodHumorIntelligenceSinging

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Brian Bell

MyselfSpacePeopleThinkingPlace

There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

Annabella Sciorra

WomenTimeMomentGameWonderRocks

The American way is to not need help, but to help.

Anne Lamott

AmericanHelpWayNeedAmerican Way

I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

Alison Pill

GoMoviesActorThingsImagineJust

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