Impoverishment Quotes

30 Impoverishment quotes by 29 unique authors

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
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
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
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
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins
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
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
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
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
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
The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment. — Albert Einstein
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
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
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. — Ludwig von Mises
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
There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal;… — Freeman Dyson
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
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
All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment. — Eudora Welty
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
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… — Hermann Hesse
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a… — Richard Dawkins
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as… — Rollo May
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;… — Lynne Truss

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