“The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.”

— Roger Garaudy

Last update Aug. 11, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create." by Roger Garaudy?

Roger Garaudy 1

French philosopher 1913–2012

Related quotes

“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.”

William Gibson book Pattern Recognition

Source: Pattern Recognition

“Today we can change the future for someone, we have only to act.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian

Surprised by Joy

“We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.”

Mark Kingwell (1963) Canadian philosopher

Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 5, The World We Want, p. 222.

“Maintaining decency, we could go anywhere and do all of our works -- Islam gives that liberty and scope to women …women have to create their own fate and work out their own future.”

Sheikh Hasina (1947) Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Hasina said on a function at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. The Ministry of Children and Women Affairs organised the function on the occasion of Begum Rokeya Day, (9 December 2015). http://www.thedailystar.net/country/women-must-create-their-own-fate-pm-184663

“We have a legislative branch that creates the law and the executive carries it out. When it works in that fashion, America works.”

Jeff Landry (1970) American politician, attorney and businessman

Source: Exclusive–Louisiana AG Jeff Landry: ‘The Democratic Party Would Like to Abolish the Constitution’ https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/04/05/exclusive-louisiana-ag-jeff-landry-the-democratic-party-would-like-to-abolish-the-constitution/ (5 April 2018)

“We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Context: We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.