Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

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• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Peace
  • Justice

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Peace
  • Mom

• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Stars

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Different
  • Soccer

• We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • World
  • Day

• Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Travel
  • Better

• The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Free
  • Simple

• A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • World
  • Rest
  • Looking

• India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • India
  • Second

• When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • World
  • Anxiety

• What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Real
  • Struggle

• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Hardest
  • Overcome

• In America, karma is best expressed in popular phrases like what goes around, comes around and what you sow, you will reap. Karma has also been referred to as having a boomerang effect where the thoughts and actions that you send out into the world turn around and come back at you... Jesus says, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Karma goes a step further and dictates that What you do unto others will come back to you. I think Jesus and the Hindus really had the same idea. Think about that the next time you want to say or do something nasty to someone else!

  

  Carmen Harra
  • World
  • Action
  • Jesus

• God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

  

  Philip Wylie
  • People
  • God
  • Hate

• We're excited to have Brandon here. We think he'll add something to our program. He's a gifted receiver.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Program
  • Receiver
  • Brandon

• If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Today
  • Passion
  • Dancing

• I'm such a generalist. I love everything. If I had the opportunity, I think I would do about 10 different degrees, five different master's degrees, probably as many Ph.D.s, and you can't do that.

  

  Elise Andrew
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • World
  • Serious
  • Crude