Quotes About Central

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The ascending spiral, one of the central images of early American letters and employed especially by Emerson, is probably an unconscious piece of every American's personal mythology. Its shorthand name is progress.

All this kind of relationship amounts to is the well?oiled relationship between two persons who remain strangers all their lives, who never arrive at a "central relationship," but who treat each other with courtesy and who attempt to make each other feel better.

Lincoln had no fears of a powerful central government, for he believed, along with other Whigs, that the purpose of government was "to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all or can not, so well do, for themselves.

Of course I welcome all the normalization of monetary policy. I think monetary policy should be normal.

I wanted to create a world that presented the Smurfs with obstacles and challenges and really put them in a fish-out-of-water situation but also make them very active in getting out of their situation. Make them really the central characters.

I played central defender for the most part when I started playing football, either central defence or right-back.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

The experience delivered me into the central project of my adult life as a writer, which is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others to do the same.

The system is created by people. The question is, 'Which people?' The central issue is not more or less government. It's 'Who is government for?'. In other words, it's all a question of power — who has it and who doesn't.

But it was the inspirational power of his pamphlet of 1902 that elevated him in the eyes of many and made him the central figure of an actual movement.

Political power in the one-party system was vested in collective bodies such as the party congress, which met annually in the early years, and its elected interim surrogate, the Central Committee.

Regional and local organs of authority set up on a sovereign basis would only stand in the way of solving these tasks. Hence it was necessary to leave in the hands of the central authority "all functions of importance to the country

Cards had been prepared on twenty-six thousand of these full-time party functionaries, and the information on the seven thousand working at the province level had been set aside for detailed further study by Central Committee officials, with a view to defining a still smaller category of more important figures.[371]

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

Without ever hearing it spoken out loud, we budding scientists simply embraced a principle I call the Central Doctrine of Science: All properties and events in the physical universe are governed by laws, and those laws hold true at every time and place in the universe. Graduate

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.

The central mistake committed both by the friends and the enemies of nationalism is the supposition that it is somehow natural.