Quote by Edward Luce Download Open image ““With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.”” — Edward Luce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Generally, I am opposed to vandalism. But I am also generally opposed to Lacey Pemberton- and in the end, that proved to be the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled,… — Leonard Wibberley Copy Share Image
“We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the… — Jan Valtin Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s time to realize that our greatest contributions are not the monuments that we construct, but the lives that we change because we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I tried to map the cultural trends leading up to it but as I did they grew, interconnecting and weaving backwards and sideways out… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“If we punished only the crimes we could prove, we would not enjoy the pleasure of dragging our fellow human beings to the scaffold… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would have been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We are a wretched, petty species, and we have been given power to destroy ourselves with.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.” — China Miéville 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
“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
“In 1970 only about one in seven American families lived in neighbourhoods that were unambiguously ‘affluent’ or ‘poor’.40 By 2007 that number had risen… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image