Quotes About Impact

When kings fall they fall on top of us.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]

All media work us over completely.

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Mediumul este mesajul.

Never think that your purpose will arise from what you want for yourself. People make this mistake every day. They think, "Well, my purpose? Let's see, what do I want?" as if they were choosing from a great wish list. Purpose has to do with what the world needs from you and what you are able to give to the world, which may or may not conform to your personal goals, plans and ambitions.

Adam has angels like a dog has fleas. He came here with them, and the more time you spend around him, the more likely you are to get them yourself.

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

What we do has eternal consequences, and you've got to have faith that whatever job you're given, it matters.

Some of our best living is done through the people we leave behind.

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.

Of all the forces, love is the strongest...Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

Achieved art is quite incapable of lowering the spirits. If this were not so, each performance of King Lear would end in a Jonestown.

Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is.

Regina Waldman, a young Jewish girl living in Libya, who was nine years old in 1957, recalled an incident in her own school. A teacher asked the children in an arithmetic lesson: 'If you have ten Jews and you kill five, how many do you have left?' That, she reflected many years later, 'was my first taste of hate.'13

Although the Government and the Air Ministry sought to weaken the impact of Churchill's warnings by accusing him of exaggeration, within four years they were forced to recognize that the true situation was as he had forecast.

Nietzsche hat mich kaputt gemacht.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.