“I cannot think that choices of this kind are unimportant.”
Ce que je crois (1987) [What I Believe] translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley (1989), p. 140
Context: This is why there is such an incredible stress on information in our schools.
The important thing is to prepare young people to enter the world of information, able to handle computers, but knowing only the reasoning, the language, the combinations, and the connections between computers.
This movement is invading the whole intellectual domain and also that of conscience. … What is at issue here is evaluating the danger of what might happen to our humanity in the present half-century, and distinguishing between what we want to keep and what we are ready to lose, between what we can welcome as legitimate human development and what we should reject with our last ounce of strength as dehumanization. I cannot think that choices of this kind are unimportant.
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“I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about.”
On Frida Kahlo's work and her own
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
Context: She painted what she painted because she had to, because she was passionate about it. She didn't care at all if people bought her paintings. As she said, she painted her reality.
I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about. I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself. That's a difference.
Frida painted her own reality, her life. I'm a director and I paint many other people... Other people's realities. But I do have to invest in it.
RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes http://theguardian.com/technology/2012/jun/29/rim-chiefs-best-quotes in The Guardian (29 June 2012)
“When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace”
“I think Romney is the best choice for us.”
Offered his support to Mitt Romney, for US presidential elections of 2012. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/george-hw-bush-backs-romney-criticizes-gingrich/2011/12/22/gIQABTzwBP_blog.html
Post presidency
“I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.”
Stated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4 on CBS's 60 Minutes (May 12, 1996) in reply to Lesley Stahl's question "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Albright was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at the time.
1990s
Source: Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power
“When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.”
“An Interview With World-Renowned Yogini Sharon Gannon” by Alicia Silverstone, in TheKindLife.com (17 September 2014) http://thekindlife.com/blog/2014/09/an-interview-with-world-renowned-yogini-sharon-gannon/.
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism