Sulak Sivaraksa Quotes

#1. The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#2. People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#3. She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

Bill Haley

#4. It was fantastic to be on the set again with Denzel (Washington) and Antoine (Fuqua) and then to have the situation be so different. We weren't making a sequel to Training Day. We were in the middle of the desert riding around on some horses.

Ethan Hawke

#5. We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#6. It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#7. Depression was, indeed, the hand of a friend trying to press me down to ground on which it was safe to stand - the ground of my own truth, my own nature, with its complex mix of limits and gifts, liabilities and assets, darkness and light.

Parker J. Palmer

#8. Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities ... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#9. True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#10. You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

Patrice Leconte

#11. Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously

Sulak Sivaraksa

#12. The secret of success is a pleasant personality with a sincere enthusiastic attitude.

Debasish Mridha