Widespread Quotes

197 quotes by 183 authors

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ...… — John Berger
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can… — Jamsetji Tata
It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life. — Irving Kahn
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human… — Jan Egeland
There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself,… — Henry Ward Beecher
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human… — Alexander McCall Smith
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one… — Peter HÃ¸eg
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been… — Oliver Sacks
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to… — Joseph Rotblat
It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further belief that we… — Stuart Kauffman
I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread… — Jane McGonigal
Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that… — Wilson Bryan Key
The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's… — Gary North
Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction. — Cosmo Gordon Lang
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies… — Patricia Hampl
The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of… — Ronald Reagan
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with… — Ai Weiwei
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and… — James Clerk Maxwell
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs. — Tom Peters
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically… — James Lovelock

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