Quotes for All
Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible… Gramsci’s insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration. Edward Said
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. Edward Alsworth Ross
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then. Friedrich Schiller
It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from the political government. Francis Lieber
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation. Daniel Webster
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. Daniel Webster
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. Daniel J. Boorstin
With today’s fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That’s what makes it an art. Conrad Hall
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an … Read more
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets. Chris Ware