#liza

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#demonstrate #economy #fact #globalization #got

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#industrialization #language #wwi #age

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

The notions of hybridity, metissage, cosmopolitanism have been deployed and reworked in order to capture the polycentric and polysemic aspects of these new configurations. ↗

— Okwui Enwezor

#creolization #hybridity #visual-culture #art

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere. ↗

— Mario Monti

#budgetary #centralization #economic policies #i #i think

Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they’re capable of so much less. ↗

— Amethyst Marie

#epiphany #fantasy #realization #imagination

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ↗

— John Muir

#destroyed #generally #gross #nature #poetry

Il ne s'agit point de t'offusquer de ce que l'un diffère de l'autre, de ce que les aspirations de l'un s'opposent aux aspirations de l'autre, de ce que le langage de l'un ne soit point le langage de l'autre, il s'agît de t'en réjouir. Car si te voilà créateur tu batiras un temple de portée plus haute qui sera leur commune mesure. Mais je dis aveugle celui-là qui s'imagine créer s'il démonte la cathédrale et aligne dans l'ordre par rang de taille les pierres l'une après l'autre. (chapitre LXXV) ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#society #imagination

I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#big fan #broken #fan #fun #guys

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for ↗

— Oliver James

#inspirational #life #self-actualization #self-expression #inspirational