Mangabeira Quotes

#1. Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, Edward Said, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Jeremiah Wright. This is a group I've previously called Obama's founding fathers.

Dinesh D'Souza

#2. I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

Melissa Leo

#3. Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#4. By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Joseph Epstein

#5. I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

Brad Pitt

#6. Our desires are insatiable. We seek from the limited the unlimited. We must fail. Our insatiability is a third incurable defect in human life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#7. Lord, in our work for justice, let us not seek after martyrdom for its own sake, but neither let us turn away from your truth because we fear suffering. Give us grace to live faithfully whatever the cost. Amen.

Shane Claiborne

#8. yet it may serve to show that courage is often nothing but inverted weakness.

Stefan Zweig

#9. The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#10. They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions.

Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#11. Invest in places that make sense so you can afford to live in places that don't make sense.

Jason Hartman

#12. If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel open, however, is to court danger: a danger inseparable from the enhancement of life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger