Displacement Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway… — Felix Frankfurter
In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories… — Osama bin Laden
We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement. — Justin Davidson
The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and… — Mohammad Khatami
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. — Joseph Goebbels
The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second… — Larry Laudan
How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum… — Hal Varian
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living. — Alan Rosenberg
Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership. — Angelo Sotira
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, — Antonio Guterres
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. — Atom Egoyan
The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return… — Kenneth Bacon
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability â€” the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed… — Aleksandar Hemon
Archimedes said Eureka, Cos in English he weren't too aversed in, when he discovered that the volume of a body in the bath, is equal… — Richard Digance
What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the… — James Clerk Maxwell
One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the… — James Clerk Maxwell
Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their carrying capacity, creating… — Daniel D. Palmer
I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very… — Ana Castillo
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their… — Mahmoud Abbas
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else… — Will Self

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