Elisee Reclus Quotes

One overriding fact dominates all of modern civilization, the fact that the property of a single person can increase indefinitely, and even, by virtue of almost universal consent, encompass the entire world.

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• It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Why
  • Interesting

• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Earth

• The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Important
  • Together
  • Single

• If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Gold

• I've got a grocery bill at the end of every month.Our toothpaste, our orange juice, that all gets paid. But I - it is true that I don't carry my wallet that often.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Months
  • Juice

• In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Life
  • Home
  • House

• Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

  

  Zelig Pliskin
  • Positive

• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Relative

• There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Dark

• Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Way
  • Two
  • Poet

• I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Remember
  • Choices
  • Musician

• And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.

  

  Miriam Hopkins
  • Sleep
  • Lovers

• I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • School
  • Money
  • Kids

• I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

  

  Charles XII of Sweden
  • War
  • Enemies
  • Legitimate

• I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Free
  • Civilization
  • Nations

• One overriding fact dominates all of modern civilization, the fact that the property of a single person can increase indefinitely, and even, by virtue of almost universal consent, encompass the entire world.

  

  Elisee Reclus
  • Virtue
  • Civilization
  • Property