Quotes About Widespread

The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Nothing as widespread and effective as the depression could possibly be "just a coincidence." Behind the depression was a cause. Nothing ever happens without a cause. In the main, the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.

that slavery is more widespread than anticipated

The state has never opposed the widespread public ownership of guns because these weapons have rarely been deployed against the state.

Many of our technology-related problems arise because of the unforeseen consequences when apparently benign technologies are employed on a massive scale.

The kind of society where trust is widespread is likely to be fairly compact and quite homogenous.

The virus of irony is as widespread in California as herpes, and once you're infected with it, it lives in your brain forever.

Short of a sudden and widespread popular revolt, the death spiral appears unstoppable, meaning the United States as we know it will no longer exist within a decade or, at most, two.

a compartmentalized mental, cultural, and spatial framework that appeared to be widespread.

I've had a 'Zelig'-like career. I pop up unexpectedly. I'm always kind of around.

but ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.

Pilfering was common in Communist China's state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly paid workers felt it fair compensation for their low pay. The practice was so widespread that it was an open secret. The workers joked about it and called it Communism, which in Chinese translation means sharing property.

Civilizaton rests on the assumption that the universe is kindly disposed towards mankind and intended for our benefit. Imagine the upheaval were it to become widespread knowledge that that is not so.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

I'm everywhere, baby, I'm everywhere. And I'm nowhere, I'm like a ghost.

I'm on his death list, too." "Then why are you still alive?" asked Peter. "Because, contrary to widespread belief, Achilles is not a genius and he makes mistakes.

The form of the text known as Byzantine is not quoted by writers of the first three Christian centuries, which suggests that it is a later form. Also it tends to combine readings (as a later harmonizing writer might do) when other texts have two different readings. Since the Byzantine text was widespread in later centuries (and therefore often called the "majority" text), it was used for the earliest printed editions of the Greek New Testament and underlies the King James Version.

The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.

Sadly, corruption is so widespread that opposition parties have as many corrupt members as ruling parties. Hence, today, even if we want, we can't vote in an honest government.

The general idea of universal moral norms is ancient, widespread, and endorsed by practically every moral authority up until late in the modern period.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

It is especially important to consider this question today, for fragmentation is now very widespread, not only throughout society, but also in each individual; and this is leading to a kind of general confusion of the mind, which creates an endless series of problems and interferes with our clarity of perception so seriously as to prevent us from being able to solve most of them.