"Central to everything I am and believe and……" — George Steiner
"Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate."
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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More Annihilate Quotes
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one of 77 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Stimulate don't Annihilate.
— Lee Haney
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army…
— Alfred Nobel
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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be…
— Maria Montessori
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But…
— Kenneth Roberts
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were…
— Tom Hanks
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If you aren’t hearing your inner voice, it could mean you’re overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you’ve learned…
— Kelly Cutrone
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral…
— Frederick Douglass
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