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My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
muhammad ali jinnah— Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation (24 October 1947)
A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life.
totaram sanadhya— My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands (English translation by J.D. Kelly & U.K. Singh, Fiji Museum, 1991)
The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001
War alone can carry to the maximum tension all human energies and imprint with the seal of nobility those people who have the courage to confront it; every other test is a mere substitute.
— c.1930 Quoted in Denis Mack-Smith Mussolini's Roman Empire (1976), p.47.
You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film—you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.
daniel day-lewis— City Limits (London, April 7, 1988)
If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.
c. wright mills— Foreword, The Marxists (1962)
We are determined to confront the oppressor with one voice.
— 1991 Addressing the first formal joint meeting for 30 years of the PAC and the rival African National Congress,15 Apr.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
john kenneth galbraith— Chapter 12, p. 330
When you confront a problem, you begin to solve it.
rudy giuliani— As quoted in RFID Journal, February 28, 2005. [5]
I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
zbigniew herbert— Quoted by Michael Hamburger, in his book, The Truth of Poetry.
To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
l. ron hubbard— A New Slant on Life (1998)
When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine — like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.
mary mccarthy— How I Grew (1987)
Bourguiba on Ramadan's effect on Tunisia"stagnation, weakness and decadence" "beautiful custom" "pretext that paralyzes our activity. Bourguiba quoting the Prophet Muhammed - "Break the fast, and you will be stronger to confront the enemy." "humiliating backward condition of our country."
habib bourguiba— "TUNISIA: Breaking the Fast". TIME. Monday, Feb. 22, 1960. Retrieved on September 6, 2011.
I believe it is the job of a President to confront problems, not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.
george w. bush— Remarks to the National Association of Home Builders, October 2, 2004 [62]
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world
hugo chávez— Hugo Chávez [1]
I give you a replica of liberator Simon Bolivar's sword. For you who, like Bolivar, took up arms to liberate your people. For you who, like Bolivar, are and will always be a true freedom fighter. [Mugabe] continues, alongside his people, to confront the pretensions of new imperialists.
hugo chávez— Praising Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a freedom fighter, as quoted in "Chavez's colourful quotations" at BBC News (12 November 2007)
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
sam harris— Harris, Sam (7 February 2006). Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam. Truthdig.com. Retrieved on 2006-10-16.
...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.
condoleezza rice— Interview on ABC This Week, July 16, 2006
At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble.
alfred rosenberg— Mythisches Ergreifen und bewusstes Erkennen stehen sich heute im Sinne des deutschen Erneuerungsgedankens endlich einmal nicht feindlich, sondern sich gegenseitig steigernd gegenüber: der glühendste Nationalismus nicht mehr auf Stämme, Dynastien, Konfessionen gerichtet, sondern auf die Ursubstanz, auf die artgebundene Volkheit selbst, ist die Botschaft, die einst alle Schlacken schmelzen wird, um das Edle herauszuholen und das Unedle auszumerzen. (Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts ("The Myth of the Twentieth Century") - Page 45 - 1930)
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.
edward said— Representations of the Intellectual (1994)
Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance.
Tacitus— Chapter 43. (Germania (98))
I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.
robert charles wilson— p. 217 (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009))
Another potent element of the new cult milieu was the therapy sect, which offered believers the chance to achieve their full human potential through personal growth and self-actualization by taking total responsibility for one's actions. The prototypical movement of this kind was est (Erhard Seminar Training), in which intense and often grueling sessions forced followers to confront a new view of reality.
— Jenkins, Philip (2000). Mystics and Messiahs : Cults and New Religions in American History. London: Oxford University Press. p. 180. ISBN 0195127447.
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
— Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980), p. 332
The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer Truth and Method (1960), Foreword to the Second Edition, p. xxiv
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.
— Max Weber, address to convention of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Germany, 1893; reported in Reinhard Bendix, Max Weber (1960), p. 53.
Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance.
— Chapter 43. (Germania (98))
Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
— Camille Paglia, in No Law in the Arena : A Pagan Theory of Sexuality, in Vamps and Tramps : New Essays (1994), p. 51
We must confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and its weapons, as well as by its own nuclear weapons, the existence of which is well known. It will bring about their own destruction.
— Mohammed Morsi, in The Real Mohamed Morsi
