Compatible Quotes

“As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than the struggle to racism or vice versa. All such questions are rooted in competitive either/or thinking, the belief that the self is formed in opposition to an other...Most people are socialized to think in terms of opposition rather than compatibility. Rather than seeing anti-racist work as totally compatible with working to end sexist oppression, they often see them as two movements competing for first place.”

“Church and business are compatible”

“Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.”

“Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.”

“Victory takes sides on people who are more compatible with nature and future.”

“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.”

“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.”

“hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.”

“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms of common religious propaganda, 'deny the existence of God.' It affirmed that God was a term for an existence imagined by man in terms of his own personality and irreducible to any tenable definition. It did not even affirm that 'there are no Gods'; it insisted that the onus of proof as to any God lay with the theist, who could give none compatible with his definitions.”