Con Consciousness Raising Quotes

#1. I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

Richard Dawkins

#2. The Invisible World reveals to us this Truth within its silence.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#3. Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

Demi Moore

#4. Everyday is an opportunity for reinvention. Everyday you can start something new.

Guillaume Wolf

#5. A mischievous biologist might wonder whether some other physicists are in need of Darwinian consciousness-raising.

Richard Dawkins

#6. There is nothing outside of the text.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]

Jacques Derrida

#7. Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Rajneesh

#8. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

James Madison

#9. Stop! Do not bare your soul on social networking brothers and sisters. If you reveal your cards in every hand, your enemy will always know your next move before you do.

Terry A. O'Neal

#10. Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried.

Robert Torricelli

#11. The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

Hillary Clinton

#12. Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

Donna Quesada

#13. The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness.

Adrienne Rich

#14. When you deal with human beings, never count on logic or consistency.

Brent Weeks

#15. As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

David Mitchell

#16. I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

Nancy Friday

#17. Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.

Barbara Seaman

#18. Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

Srikumar Rao

#19. Spirit is love, spirit is connection, inclusive, and that's what I'm interested in, and that's what moved me. That's what I got more and more into as I grew up and as I was in college in the 60's with consciousness raising and other kind of things, gestalt psychology etc.

Surya Das

#20. If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#21. Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.

Bob Proctor

#22. A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'

Richard Dawkins

#23. The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

Bell Hooks

#24. I'm not from a music family at all.

Tove Lo

#25. It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.

Common

#26. I am beautiful, one with cosmos, life force, eternal abundance, joy, vitality, infinite consciousness.

Jay Woodman

#27. When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

Donna Quesada

#28. I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

Casey Stoner

#29. The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us

Peter Ustinov

#30. Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.

Annie Dillard

#31. Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

Nora Ephron

#32. Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

Rajneesh

#33. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#34. We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.

Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

#35. I'm not as obsessive-compulsive about certain things; I give a lot of latitude to people and support people. I know that I can't do it myself and that you're only as good as the people you have behind you.

Donna Karan

#36. Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Alice Walker

#37. Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Ayelet Waldman

#38. It isn't much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

Andrew Vachss

#39. Share your dreams and they will be inspired. Plant seeds of knowledge and they will grow and reproduce beyond measure.

Terry A. O'Neal

#40. consciousness-raising.

Richard Dawkins

#41. Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

Jaggi Vasudev

#42. The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

Richard Dawkins