Widespread Quotes

197 quotes by 183 authors

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon… — Eric Schlosser
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption… — Dorothy E. Denning
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when… — Peter Lewis Allen
Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love — Bell Hooks
Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election? — Elizabeth May
Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with… — Mel Robbins
We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where… — Suzy Kassem
Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world. — Auguste Escoffier
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. — Ernst Mayr
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. — William O. Douglas
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What… — John Sayles
In times past, knowledge of the bowel was more widespread and people were taught how to care for the bowel. Somehow bowel wisdom got lost… — Bernard Jensen
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case,… — Matthew Yglesias
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. — Josiah Strong
Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough… — David Pryce-Jones
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what… — John Fowles
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition… — Walter Lippmann
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. — Greg Egan
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only… — Aldous Huxley
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead

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