The World Motivation
I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.
“I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.”
I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.
We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly, but not cling to them or curtail their freedoms. We should treasure the material world without seeking to own and control it.
Wildlife film-makers I know tell me that the effort to portray what looks like an untouched ecosystem becomes harder every year. They have to choose their camera angles ever more carefully to exclude the evidence of destruction, travel further to find the Edens they depict.
A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to the natural world.
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
When someone becomes a part of the Azzurri squad that has won a World Cup, they are like family, and they never abandon anyone.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.