Quotes for All
Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that … Read more
The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea. Francis Daniels Moore
There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don’t know how to fight with each other. The set piece that shapes and contains quarrels in homogeneous countries does not exist here. The Frenchman is an expert on the precise gradations of espèce de and the … Read more
People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say ‘us,’ it will mean as a species. Dwight Schultz
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. D. H. Lawrence
It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance. … Read more
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities. Antonio Gramsci
We’re not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward. Antonio Villaraigosa
We can’t talk about the black community. It’s no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community. Angela Davis
Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not at all a challenge. It is just removal of some mental blocks. Ideally speaking, this combination should be done based on scientific, clinical and neurobiological studies and the combined structure should be made … Read more