Hostility Quote by James Gleick Download Open image “Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.” — James Gleick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hostility Ideas People Physics Provoking World
What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“The cause of human conflict is simple: one person dehumanizes another. One side sees the other side as unworthy. As long as people who… — Paul Ferrini Copy Share Image
These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
“Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging them down • treat others the way you wish to be treated” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous. — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
The world is getting smaller. And people are bumping up against people from different parts of the world with very different points of view.… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“If it is true that ideas don’t change things gradually but in fits and starts – in shocks – then the basic premise of… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey’s name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
There's always a fine line that divides hostility from neutrality, and I don't want to pass that line. — Ed Dwight Copy Share Image
The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just… — Banksy Copy Share Image
