Quotes
Authors
Harold Innis

"It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health of a civilization, particularly if they thwart the interest of a people in culture, and following Aristotle , the cathartic effects of culture. "It is written but I say unto you" is a powerful directive to Western civilization."

Source : "Empire and Communications". Book by Harold Innis, pp. 19-20, 2007.

Harold Innis

#Powerful Quotes #Civilization Quotes #People Quotes

“Don't send a man to the grocery store.”
“Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties.”
“Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.”
“You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealisticâ€¦someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.”
“If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business.”
“The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.”
“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
“The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.”

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