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World Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
- The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later…
- God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.
- America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach…
- We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
- There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull…
- By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.
- It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more…
- Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people…
- Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively)…
- It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
- The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
- Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope,…
- In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more…
- The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally…
- In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid…
- I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics…
- I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach