Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.
Judith Lewis Herman
Related We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finall... DON TAPSCOTT Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ... ERICH FROMM Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat. LEWIS CARROLL Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an aft... JUDITH HAYES I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES We are far more revealing by the questions we ask than the answers we give. Answer briefly to sense ... KARE ANDERSON In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e... MARINA ABRAMOVIC All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: e... DAVID NOVAK the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. 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My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing e... MAGGIE KUHN If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another. KAREN M. MCMANUS Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture. ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the ... DAVID CHRISTIAN To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a prob... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see our... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Considering his age, he's not at the point where he cannot be rehabilitated. He's functioning well b... LORI MILLER Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go... JACK JOHNSON But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ours... HALDAN KEFFER HARTLINE You can always give your testimony of how you came to know Jesus. Certainly no one can argue with yo... HENRY HON In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e... MARINA ABROMOVIC At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every bac... DAVID PUTTNAM We live in a media age. In many respects, it is more important for people to be known in the media c... LEE RAINIE Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, writt... DAVID HUME If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what i... 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BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie... W.H. AUDEN We have to continually grow in the knowledge of Christ, in order to avoid every limitation of our hu... SUNDAY ADELAJA In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human id... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Remember, we all stumble,every one of us. Thats why it is a comfort to go hand in hand! NANDA KUMAR Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in un... CHRIS HARDWICK No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, ... D. A. CARSON For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there m... SUZY KASSEM Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above th... VOLTAIRE One of the things that we teach in the class is tolerance and understanding between different groups... JANE LOWE Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked ... GARY SHTEYNGART When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the t... MICHAEL HAYDEN Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals... SUZY KASSEM Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: t... HUGO BALL No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactl... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot... ELIE WIESEL The database management companies have a tremendous asset in that they are hosting the customer data... ERIC SCHMITT The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in som... LEO TOLSTOY The answer to every 'why' is to ignore it. MARTY RUBIN We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of th... BRIAN WICKER ...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civiliz... JAMES FENIMORE COOPER How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. BILL GATES For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matte... BRADY UDALL Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a... ROBERT FARRAR CAPON Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY The need continues to be staggering. In a land with more landmines than there are people, there is a... JOHN DENNIS When the facts come out (in court) it will be very clear why things happened when they happened. The... 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HERMAN MELVILLE Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. The... HERMAN MELVILLE This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true... HERMAN CAIN Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know. HERMAN CAIN Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but ... HERMAN KAHN I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the ... HERMAN HESSE Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relati... HERMAN KAHN That would mean would be icing on the cake. The past 27 years has been the cake, that would be the i... BOB HERMAN The joke was that we were retiring at the end of every year. BOB HERMAN What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an e... BOB HERMAN Those years I was the assistant coach at Lancaster Catholic and got to coach my son to a section cha... BOB HERMAN Defense is a big part of the game, and that was the difference in the game tonight. They had an inni... BILL HERMAN We function as an advocacy group in forcing the administration's hand. BILL HERMAN With everybody back on defense, that will be our strength. Everyone has experience playing in a regi... BILL HERMAN That was big. We were awfully aggressive. BILL HERMAN Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the fir... HERMAN KAHN It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for thi... HERMAN HESSE My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, ... ALEXIS HERMAN If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and b... HERMAN HESSE Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. HERMAN MANKIEWICZ Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign... HERMAN HESSE The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How... HERMAN ANDREWS (The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. Thi... HERMAN ANDREWS I don't know how many people we're going to have participating, but if those people don't give 100 p... HERMAN ANDREWS They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't affo... HERMAN ANDREWS There weren't any great performances, but we won it. HERMAN ANDREWS We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are a ... HERMAN ANDREWS It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When it... HERMAN ANDREWS There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better. HERMAN ANDREWS Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? HERMAN MELVILLE One right decision doth not a great president make. HERMAN CAIN Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. HERMAN WOUK