Quotes about lack
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“Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination.”

BJ Miller (1971) palliative caregiver

On What really matter at the end of life in "On What really matter at the end of life" https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life on TED.COM (2015 March)

Death, Imagination

“The resilience of democracy lies in its self-cleansing effect. Control and correction are the cleansing agents of democracy. Where they are lacking, democracy dies a silent death.”

Jules Sedney (1922–2020) Prime Minister of Suriname (1922-2020)

The Future of Our Past (1997)

Death, Democracy

“The devil lacks inspiration that's why he has to imitate everything. Cultivate your thoughts!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“War between religions and science will never end; because they speak difference languages. There is a lack of communication between them.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

War, Religion, Communication, Science

“You are not poor only in the lack of possessions, but also in your way of reasoning.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Way

“Jealousy and envy are the signs of lack of emotional control in your life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Jealousy, Envy

“Most kings should be entertained because they lack talent except killing and scolding others.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The relationship between the brain and the body is similar to that of a master and a slave. There is a lack of effective communication.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Communication

“It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.”

Daniel Dae Kim (1968) American actor

"Is There Anything 'Insurgent' Star Daniel Dae Kim Can't Do?" in NBC Asian America (24 March 2015) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ddk-diversity-media-america-n320081

“Without fear of God as a basis, nothing is possible spiritually, for the absence of fear is a lack of self-knowledge.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 30, 978-1-93659700-0]
God, Reverential fear and love

God, Fear, Knowledge

“When the moon is absent, the night started feeling restless, kept looking for the moon here and there behind the clouds. The lack of moonlight began to disturb all the stars, losing its existence even its stars started disappearing, then everyone would have spent the night without the moon.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Feeling, Star, Night

“Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 73

Life, Men, Knowledge

“The English language lacks the ability to express thoughts that surpass the order of concrete things. It’s because the German language has this ability that Germany is the country of thinkers.”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Source: 7 March 1942, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944

Country

“Except not a moment of peace from love of self,
except no lofty position from lack of will.
Worldliness brings no profit –
Become insignificant, seek no increase.”

Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661) Persian mystic, poet and saint

Source: Sarmad, Martyr to Love Divine, p. 241 (2005)

Love, Peace

“Hypocrisy is a game of pretense. It's a lack of honesty. Clearly, Jesus did not abide hypocrites. He expects honesty. He expects straightforwardness, and he expects us to be humble about it all.”

Patrick Pinder (1953) Roman Catholic archbishop of Nassau, the Bahamas

Source: Safety, protection and well-being https://thenassauguardian.com/safety-protection-and-well-being/ (October 15, 2020)

Game

“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 23 (p. 242)

Loss, Personality

“Thanksgiving for the benefits received from God is made acceptable by humility and not looking down on those who lack them. It is rendered unacceptable, however, by being conceited, as if those benefits resulted from our own efforts and knowledge, and by condemning those who have not received them.”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

Source: The Parables of Jesus: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

God, Knowledge, Effort

“Books just don’t register with this crowd. They think I lack common sense; I think they lack a part of their souls.”

Maureen Corrigan (1955) American journalist and writer

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)
Source: Interlude, “Books, What a Jolly Company They Are” (p. 57)

Books, Soul, Thinking, Sense

“This lack of pride has led to a serious weakening of the Hindu psyche. Hindus are no more prepared to stand up and fight for anything, because they no more believe or feel that anything is worth fighting for, not at least to the bitter end.”

Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist

Source: Defence of Hindu Society (1983)

Feeling, Fight

“The black man's brake, if we are to believe, is the lack of prophets and spiritual masters”

Bavua Ntinu André (1939–2013) Spiritual master of the PSV

https://www.lephareonline.net/grand-maitre-bavua-a-une-solution-pour-lafrique-noire/ Grandmaster Bavua has a solution for black Africa D-I.K, lephare, Grandmaster Bavua has a solution for black Africa on June 01, 2010.

“A People which is content with its homeland and which shreds at even the shadow of a conflict lacks the characteristics of a superior race.”

Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) King of the Belgians

Source: BBC Documentary based on Adam Hochschild's 'King Leopold's Ghost'
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

People

“Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.”

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar

Athenäum (1798 - 1800)
Source: “Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #31

Women, Men, Education, Evil

“The major weapon now being used by the combined Forces of Evil is chaos, disruption, lack of established security, and consequent fear... The entire rhythm of international thinking has to be altered, and that constitutes a slow and arduous task; the evil personalities which, in every country, are responsible for the chaos and uncertainty, have eventually to be replaced by those who can work in co-operation with the rhythm of the seventh Ray, and thus produce ordered beauty.”

Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer

Source: The Externalization of the Hierarchy (1957) p. 668

Fear, Beauty, Thinking, Evil

“Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims of the genocidal campaign that white America is waging against them.”

David Horowitz (1939) Neoconservative activist, writer

from the 1999 book Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes.
1990s

Rage

“I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), pp. xxxiii-xxxiv

Children, Age, School, Behavior

“Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. xxxiv

Children, Age, School, Behavior

“My opinion is that the best law is an education of quality, that begins in the family, grows at school and finds in society a stimulus for the formation of people. We are greatly lacking in civic friendship, we look at one another as mad people and not as brethren or as people who share the same ideal, the same purpose.”

Ricardo Ezzati (1942) archbishop and cardinal

Source: Chile – Cardinal Ezzati: Reparation Eucharist https://www.infoans.org/en/sections/news/item/1167-chile-cardinal-ezzati-reparation-eucharist-at-gratitud-nacionain-this-l (13 June 2016)

Friendship, People, Education, School

“Although it is not thought or some other form of knowledge, although it is not the truth of the world, that gives access to the Revelation of God, at least a single possibility persist, already mentioned as a simple matter of fact and now rendered unimpeachable. Access to God, understood as his self-revelation according to a phenomenality proper to Him, is not susceptible of being produced except where this self-revelation is produced and in the way self-revelation does so. There where God originally arrives in himself, in the phenomenalization of phenomenality that is his own and is thus like the self-phenomenalization of this phenomenality proper – there alone is access to God. It is not that thought is lacking and so we cannot accede to the Revelation of God. Quite the contrary, it is only when thought defaults, because the truth of the world is absent, that what is at stake be achieved: the self-revelation of God – the self-phenomenalization of pure phenomenality against the background of a phenomenality that is not that of the world.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Books on Religion and Christianity, I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)
Source: Michel Henry, I am the Truth. Toward a Philosophy of Christianity, translated by Susan Emanuel, Stanford University Press, 2003, p. 27

God, Truth, World, Way

“It is not by lack of capability that we don't thrive but it is by either lack of knowledge that we possess it or by non-application of it.”

- Goa

Knowledge

“The total lack of information is a kind of information in itself.”

Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist

Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 25 (p. 364)

“Now and then philosophers invade the field of biological sciences with these beguiling generalizations, which tend to be unproductive, purely verbal solutions lacking in substance. At best, they may prove useful when viewed simply as working hypotheses.”

Santiago Ramón y Cajal book Advice for a Young Investigator

Advice for a Young Investigator (1897)

Science

“The inevitable only exists through lack of intervention.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

“If someone’s face lacks a smile, offer them yours.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Smile

“He who has not sinned lacks a stone.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

“All of those empty storefronts aren’t just shattered dreams, they’re warning lights that are going off and state and local budgets that are being stretched because of the lack of tax revenue.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2021, March 2021, Remarks by President Biden Before Economic Briefing with Treasury Secretary Yellen

Dreams, Light

“If we are short of grace and lack the wisdom to handle a particular situation, we may need to be silent. But we must never be political.”

Witness Lee (1905–1997) Chinese Christian preacher

Life-Study of Galatians, message 6, section 1, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-7363-0961-6

Wisdom

“Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgement and should be trusted with nothing.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

Essays and reviews, Clive James On Television (1991)

Sense, Dance, Speed

“In previous years, when the Kyivans were waking up without any permits at all, the parks and squares have been built over and as a result, now we have a lack of trust.”

Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician

2014
Source: [2021-04-19, Виталий Кличко — DSnews.ua, https://www.dsnews.ua/dosie/vitaliy-klichko-18042021-422545, 2022-06-13, www.dsnews.ua, ru]

“We desperately need a sociopath test for all politicians. We have the technology to find out if people lack empathy. If they do, they should be banned from running for office, serving on corporate boards, or having any kind of authority.”

Lee Camp (1980) American comedian, writer, and activist

Twitter, https://twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/1282094933231509505 (12 July 2020)

People

“As long as people are still talking, there is a glimmer of hope. War does not bring any solutions, only destruction, suffering and lack of peace.”

Mieczysław Mokrzycki (1961) Polish bishop

Ukraine: Church continues to help refugees and pray for peace https://acninternational.org/ukraine-church-continues-to-help-refugees-and-pray-for-peace/ (24 February 2022)

War, People, Peace, Hope

“There is no Church without the Eucharist. The fact that it is not available makes us become a Protestant Catholic Church, because we lack the Eucharist and the other sacraments.”

Eugenio Coter (1957) Catholic bishop

Bishop says Amazon Synod did little to tackle sacramental crisis in region (20 January 2022) Crux https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2022/01/bishop-says-amazon-synod-did-little-to-tackle-sacramental-crisis-in-region

“Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride or laziness of mind.”

Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science

Principle attributed to Popper by Ryszard Kapiscinski in New York Times obituary, 1995.
Misattributed
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/01/magazine/lives-well-lived-karl-popper-the-philosopher-as-giantslayer.html

Knowledge

“Nothing is more irritating and hurtful than a person who makes promises and breaks them over and over again. It shows lack of consideration for the other's feelings and also means the person cannot be trusted or relied upon. Do not make promises you feel you may not be able to keep, because besides being irritating, it also ruins character.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Feeling, Hurt, Personality

“Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.”

Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892–1981) American businessman

Dreams

“In art it is not enough to have talent. A true artist with the mind must never lack imagination and order his body to perform, remember and then archive.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nell'arte non basta avere talento. Un vero artista con la mente non deve mai mancare di immaginazione ed ordinare al proprio corpo di eseguire, ricordare e poi archiviare.
Source: prevale.net

Art, Imagination

“When I lack courage, I find it in my mother's eyes.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Quando mi manca il coraggio, lo trovo negli occhi di mia madre.
Source: prevale.net

Courage

“If you do not keep your word, you will have demonstrated that you do not hold yourself to standards of conduct. You will have demonstrated that you care more about your own personal happiness and whims than you do about the pain of others. You will have demonstrated that you do not value your relationships and even that you do not value the people you are in a relationship with. You will have demonstrated yourself to be a person who lacks Integrity and honor. You will have demonstrated that you cannot be relied upon and that you cannot be trusted. You will be seen as an unsafe person. You will ruin the way that other people will see you, most especially you will lose their respect. And on the road to this ultimate loss, you will have created non-stop conflict in all of your relationships.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Pain, Happiness, People, Way

“A heart will be at peace when it knows that what is for it will never be missed and what it lacks it will never have been for him.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Un cuore sarà in pace quando saprà che ciò che è per lui non gli mancherà mai e ciò che gli manca non sarà mai stato per lui.
Source: prevale.net

Peace, Heart

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