“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”
Source: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.
“All power, as well as all the impotence of democracy is based on faith”
The History of Rome
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Erich Fromm
(1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 483
Context: Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie, concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.
“All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel
(1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"The Holy Dimension", p. 338
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.
Winston S. Churchill
(1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 "Debate on the Address" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1936/nov/12/debate-on-the-address#column_1107, criticizing Stanley Baldwin's record on rearmament against Hitler.
The 1930s
Context: Anyone can see what the position is. The Government simply cannot make up their mind, or they cannot get the Prime Minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. So we go on preparing more months and years — precious, perhaps vital to the greatness of Britain — for the locusts to eat.
Aung San Suu Kyi
(1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours (1997)
Context: We have faith in the power to change what needs to be changed but we are under no illusion that the transition from dictatorship to liberal democracy will be easy, or that democratic government will mean the end of all our problems. We know that our greatest challenges lie ahead of us and that our struggle to establish a stable, democratic society will continue beyond our own life span.
But we know that we are not alone. The cause of liberty and justice finds sympathetic responses around the world. Thinking and feeling people everywhere, regardless of color or creed, understand the deeply rooted human need for a meaningful existence that goes beyond the mere gratification of material desires. Those fortunate enough to live in societies where they are entitled to full political rights can reach out to help their less fortunate brethren in other areas of our troubled planet.
Section 85
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence.”
Rem Koolhaas
(1944) Dutch architect (b.1944)
From S,M,L,XL, New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995
