Quotes About Fragmentation

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

I'm a product of a fragmented world.

Let's build a house of human pieces, arms and hair, not telling any one.

Radical individualism, radical egalitarianism, omnipresent and omni-incompetent government, the politicization of the culture, and the battle for advantages through politics shatter a society into fragments of isolated individuals and angry groups.

I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn't let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinl record, a stutter.

Kendinize ait parçalar vard?r, say?s?z parçalar, bunlar? bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazs?n?z.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

La totalidad está presente incluso en las piezas rotas

Si muoveva come raccogliendo ogni volta pezzi di se stessa che non erano destinati a rimanere insieme. Il suo corpo sembrava il risultato di uno sforzo di volontà.

The paradox is that the regional association we call today the European Union, which has few of the attributes of a state, is the strongest and closest inter-state association in the world, but it is located in the continent with the greatest degree of political fragmentation.

It has often been said, in the twenty-first century and in earlier centuries, too, that Americans lack a shared past and that, built on a cracked foundation, the Republic is crumbling.

A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.

The bed itself is an operating table where my dreams slice me to pieces.

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...

A Natureza é partes sem um todo. Isto é talvez o tal mistério de que falam.

The essence of pleasure lies in splitting yourself into more than one person.

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.