Phenomenon Quotes

• The demonizing of black identity is much more of a global phenomenon than many would like to admit. I've traveled abroad extensively, and it's hard to ignore the subordination of darker peoples to lighter peoples the world around.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • World
  • Identity
  • Phenomenon

• I say the elite looks out of touch because it's kind of saying; look we'll manage all this for you. You know, we know best. We'll sort it all out for you. And then because people believe that doesn't meet their case for change and they want real change, social media and the way the relationship between people can come into a sense of belonging very quickly, that then is itself a revolutionary phenomenon. You see this around the world.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Phenomenon

• Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Cinema
  • Phenomenon

• Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the biosphere. It's a phenomenon that is deeply related to the history of life itself, so by studying cancer I think we can illuminate the history of life itself and vice versa.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Thinking
  • Study
  • Cancer

• We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Reality
  • Gender
  • Phenomenon

• Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have something scientifically sound that says something about this phenomenon. The study is ongoing, and I hope that, with a push from both of us, it will provide a sound basis for serious public discussion on the migration issue.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Problem
  • Governments
  • I Hope

• In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Beginning
  • Remains
  • Phenomenon

• The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.

  

  African Spir
  • Education
  • Gifted
  • Fellow

• I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Together
  • Reading
  • Interest

• Without Leonard Nimoy, there would have been no 'Star Trek' phenomenon. And without 'Star Trek'... well, that's a parallel universe most of us probably wouldn't want to visit.

  

  Steve Hockensmith
  • Universe
  • Phenomenon
  • Star Trek

• I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Young
  • Embrace
  • YouTube

• Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

  

  Sugata Mitra
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Phenomenon

• Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

  

  Evangelos Venizelos
  • Integrity
  • Phenomenon
  • Greece

• To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Reason
  • Spirit
  • Broken

• It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.

  

  Edwin Thompson Jaynes
  • Information
  • Phenomenon
  • Probability

• You can't just live in phenomenon and not research it.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Research
  • Phenomenon

• I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Media
  • Social
  • Revolutionary

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