Impoverishment Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence…
— Raisa Gorbacheva
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the…
— Arthur Koestler
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The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second…
— Albert Einstein
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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is…
— E L Doctorow
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One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
— David Perkins
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The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge…
— Robert Grudin
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Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his…
— Diego Rivera
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To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an…
— Denis de Rougemont
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When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a…
— Bill Richardson
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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
— Albert Einstein
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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural…
— Northrop Frye
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According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to…
— David Horowitz
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the…
— Alfred Kazin
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There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal;…
— Freeman Dyson
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In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering…
— David W. Orr
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People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as…
— Peace Pilgrim
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All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.
— Eudora Welty
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The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less…
— Joanna Macy
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