Eric Voegelin Quotes

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

Eric Voegelin

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Goal

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Hate
  • Road

• I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Think
  • Man
  • Like

• I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Good
  • School
  • Family

• It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

  

  Chanakya
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Night

• I think Beyonce always looks great.

  

  Lily James
  • Great

• In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Age
  • Moving

• I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • God
  • High
  • Wish

• I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Important

• I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • World
  • Family
  • Words

• The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Energy
  • Road

• I think there's a tendency, and it's an understandable tendency, to imagine that China makes decisions out of a grand strategy. The reality is that I think China today is operating, most of all, based on its domestic needs.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Needs
  • Imagine
  • Decisions

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

  

  John Hurt
  • Great
  • God
  • Death

• All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Men
  • Death
  • Victory

• There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

  

  Ernie Kovacs
  • Death
  • Success
  • Medium

• The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

  

  Eric Voegelin
  • Death
  • Progress
  • Spirit