Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.
So do you remember this place?" "Hard to forget. " he snorted. "This is where you tried to kill me. You were so nervous, you kept blushing. Never had someone try to stake me who blushed so much.
A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
When you start out as a band, you stake your claim and you go for it. And there's a part of you that dreams it and imagines it and does everything to get there, but you can't ever expect to sell 8, 10, 12, 20 million albums. It becomes this thing that you really have to figure out as you go.
I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.
Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake. . . spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174
We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Trump realized that you had to drive a stake through the heart of this establishment and that millions of Americans do not feel represented by this sort of clique in Washington.
My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.
There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.