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All Quotes Collection
"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."
70
"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal."
48
"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."
49
"Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin."
58
"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."
53
"Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate."
20
"Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them."
19
"Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company."
22
"At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement."
27
"Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy."
17
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
56
"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
52
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
36
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
51
"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
60
"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
50
"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
43
"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
45
"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
37
"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
54
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
46
"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
45
"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
39
"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
51
"I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization."
101
"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
44
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
53
"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy."
44
"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."
44
"I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways."
44
"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
41
"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
58
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
46
"When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear."
56
"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
65
"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."
48
"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
54
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