Quotations
Citas (Spanish)
- "The
most potent weapon for the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed", Steve Biko
- “When men no
longer believe in us, we are dead.”
--One deity advising another in a
Maori myth
- “If we write novels so, how shall we write history?” -- Henry James, George Eliot's Middlemarch
- “So that in
the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First,
competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first, make the men
invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The
first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men’s persons, wives,
children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a
word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either
direct in their persons, or by reflection in their kindred, their friends,
their nation, their profession, or their name.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan,
1651
- "If you
spy on and block those advocating reason, you are aiding and abetting those who will follow with
violence." -- Alexander Cockburn
- "The
people have lost the confidence of the Government; the Government has decided
to dissolve the people, and to appoint another one" Bertholt Brecht
- "Never
gonna fall for modern love" David
Bowie (1983)
- "Speech
was given to man to disguise his thoughts." Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- "The
United States is going to lead you to the ‘‘land of salvation,’’ much as God
had for the Jews" Commodore Benjamin
Wyatt, Chief Military Government Officer of the Marshall Islands, when
informing the people of Bikini Atoll -unwittingly interrupting a Sunday
morning, American-style Congregational church service- that their island would
have to be evacuated because of the impending atomic bomb tests. Hal M.
Friedman, Creating an
- “Logic: The
art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and
incapacitations of the human misunderstanding” Ambrose Bierce
- "The
world in its present shape is not the only possible world" Paul Klee
-
"Ironically, statements of human unity often seem to rest upon the denial
of human differences. Yet from a biological and social point of view the unity
of humanity depends upon the capacity to recognize our moral equality in spite
of differences of colour, gender, and culture" Paul Graves, in Current
Anthropology, 32,5, 1991.
- "All
historians are world historians now, although many have not yet realized
it" C.A. Bayly, The Birth of Modern World 1780-1914, p.
469.
- "The past is not never dead it is not even past" Faulkner
- "unlike
memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the
disenchanment of the world. Most of what it has to offer is discomforting, even
disruptive..." Tony Judt
- "The age of innocence is over -if indeed ever existed" S. Howell (1984)
- "Anyone
desiring a quiet [non-public] life has done badly to be born in the twentieth
century." Leon Trotsky
- “Development
can be seen as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy”, Amartya Sen
- "At a
time when the developed world needs to cut back on per capita consumption,
transnational businesses are engaged in efforts to create a giant global middle
class" United Nations report
- "poor
environmental quality is responsible for 25 percent of the world's burden of
disease" World Health
Organization's Estimation
- “Who knows only
one country knows no countries.” Seymour
Martin Lipset, sinologist y political scientist
- "Art is
not a copy of the world; one of the two damn things is enough" Virginia Woolf
- “Unconcerned
but not indifferent”, Epitaph in Man Ray’s
tomb
- "Impartiality
is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for
ignorance." - The Speaker, 12/15/00
- “What
embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of
self-criticism." - Sidelights on
- "He is
a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." -
Tremendous Trifles, 1909
- "You
may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you," Red Army
commander Leon Trostky
- "To
define or to name is to conquer" Arf
Diklik, “The Asia-Pacific idea: Reality and representation in the invention
of a Regional Structure", in Journal
of World History, vol. 3, n. 1, Spring 1992: 76
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