My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life. Those twenty extra years - one is grateful for them, one is happy, but they also give you ten or twenty years more of losing your faculties. That is actually the origin of my notion. Once you live longer than you're supposed to live, things go dreadfully wrong. But nevertheless, you're not dead.
They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply. . . . tell the world I never cared it was against me
Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.
The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures. . . the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.
Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.
One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.
Forgiveness is simply a decision to cancel a debt.
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.
Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.