Phenomenon Quotes - Page 17

• Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Issues, People, Decision

  "Frances Moore Lappé : Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

  A. N. Wilson

  Thinking, Opposites, History

  A. N. Wilson (2015). “After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World”, p.194, Macmillan

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• Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Judgement, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

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• Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

  Vernon Howard

  Mean, Animal, Civilization

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• The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

  James Agate

  Mad, Events, World

  James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Matter, Spirit

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• By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Claudia Roth

  Queens, White, House

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• Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

  Josef Albers

  Heart, Painting, Curious

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• We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a much greater phenomenon. We transcend the barriers of culture. DVDs' image quality and longevity provide us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium. I think they were invented especially for me.

  Peter Greenaway

  Powerful, Moving, Technology

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• We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.

  Peter Greenaway

  Sight, Perspective, Suffering

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• A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity they were aware of a strange buzzing sound. Witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomenon have also referred to a buzzing or rushing sound shortly before the 'flying saucer' appeared over them. I am also reminded that great deal of poltergeist activity produces a preparatory 'signal' of a buzzing, rasping, or winding noise.

  Brad Steiger

  Rushing, Numbers, Flying

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• The idea of UFOs is becoming a very prevalent phenomenon in people's consciousness. People believe in them. What does this mean? It means that people have a place to look to other than our government! People have a place to look for guidance and authority that is much more enlightened.

  Brad Steiger

  Believe, Mean, Government

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• Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

  Patricia Hampl

  Memories, Past, Fascinated

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• Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon, and as such is very difficult to define because there are exceptions to every conceivable rule.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Yoga, Difficult

  "Yoga: The Technology of Ecstasy".

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• The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Scarcity, Natural

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Doe, Literature

  "Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1". Interview with Antonio Weiss. Issue 118, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1991.

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• If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will lead you into non-misery. If anger creates a hell within you, then compassion will create a heaven. So whatsoever the process of misery, the reverse will be the process of happiness. Unconditioning means you have to understand the whole knotted phenomenon of human consciousness as it is.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Compassion, Attachment

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• Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Lying, Heart, Eye

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• Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its material conditions, that is, when its law is known. Before that, we have only groping and empiricism.

  Claude Bernard

  Real, Science, Law

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

  Kurt Sutter

  Country, Character, Desire

  "R.I.P. Krazy Kurt Sutter's Twitter Feed" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. August 15, 2011.

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• O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

  Marianne Moore

  Power, Dragons, Heaven

  'O To Be a Dragon' (1959)

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• Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

  Jack Welch

  Average, Performers

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• Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

  Thomas Cech

  Biology, Breakthrough, Connected

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Sports, Art, Inspiration

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• Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

  John Doerr

  Vanity, Reader, Wells

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