Quote by Edward Luce Download Open image ““The West’s global cities are like tropical islands surrounded by oceans of resentment.”” — Edward Luce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The implications are sobering: the non-West not only finds itself replicating the West’s trauma on an infinitely larger scale. While helping inflict the profoundest… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it… — James Hervey Copy Share Image
“Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough seas.” — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into the sea,… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
“The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.” — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
That the whole world is not the West and that there are other ways of doing things, whether it's eating, seeing or valuing life. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
“Davos has become the emblem of a global elite that has lost its ability to listen.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been treading water… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Cowen detects conformism even in the liveliest Silicon Valley companies. Most of its denizens wear some variation on the casual hipster uniform and all… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Almost half of Americans would be unable to pay a $400 medical emergency bill without going into debt.67” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“In the US, the more liberal a city’s politics, the higher the rate of inequality.45” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“the Toil Index – the number of working hours it takes a median worker to pay the median rent in one of America’s big… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Today’s equivalent is probably ‘get an engineering degree’, but it will not necessarily be as lucrative. A third of Americans who graduated in STEM… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards Addis Ababa launched a crackdown on its opponents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. If America’s president was in two minds about… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
