Form Quotes - Page 52

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I must do in response, then an economist would say that is sufficient information for a market to emerge between you and me.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.