“When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.”
Clark Moustakas
“The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration”
Romain Rolland
“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.”
Wilhelm Reich
“They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We will not win the war on terror through military action. The sharing of information and intelligence will be vital to protecting our country.”
William S. Cohen
“It is vital that we turn this situation around and ensure that developing countries receive the financial resources they need,”
Kofi Annan