Mark Satin quotes

“Draft resisters have had and should continue to have only normal difficulties immigrating [to Canada]. Probably any young American can get in if he is really determined, though all will need adequate information. ... The toughest problem a draft resister faces is not how to immigrate but whether he really wants to. And only you can answer that. For yourself. That's what Nuremberg was all about.”
-- Mark Satin

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“I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.”
-- Mark Satin

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“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2013

“The simplest answer is to act.”

Source : "Everybody Sees the Ants". Book by A.S. King, 2011.

“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”

“The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.”

“Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse”

“Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.”

Source : Bede Griffiths (2004). “Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings”

“One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence”

“I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.”

“Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.”

“More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.”