Franz Josef Radermacher quotes

The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible.
-- Franz Josef Radermacher

#Humanity #Limits #Pushing

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.