Mangabeira Unger Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things ...

Aimee Bender

#3. Say not: "When I have free time I shall study", for you may perhaps never have any free time

Hillel The Elder

#4. 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

#5. Taking care a white babies, that's what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime. I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go in the toilet bowl before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning.

Kathryn Stockett

#6. Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

Stephen King

#7. 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

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

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#9. What's the purpose of living in a loft if you put up walls?

Naeem Khan

#10. Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

Oswald Chambers

#11. He's the reason I am strong
but he is also my biggest weakness.

Nikki Rowe

#12. Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

Ryan Adams

#13. 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

#14. Dean Holder? Messy brown hair? Smoldering blue eyes? A temper straight out of Fight Club?

Colleen Hoover

#15. Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

Dick Gregory

#16. I'm just... enjoying the floor. It was kind enough to catch me when I fell.

Scott Lynch

#17. Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.

Terry Kath

#18. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart.

Elle King

#20. 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