Central Quotes - page 2

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America. (Vic Snyder)
Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. View quote
Francis Crick
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. View quote
Kofi Annan
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. View quote
Kofi Annan
I know that when I look at today's Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can't coexist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it's an agonizing issue. View quote
Paul Krugman
There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee. View quote
Xi Jinping
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. View quote
Ron Paul
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth. (Jefferson Davis)
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate...but I don't have...a central cause...a motivating cause, I don't know what that would be...other than trying to tell the truth when I work. View quote
Jennifer Beals
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The central question of economic policy is the question of the effectiveness of its various instruments. View quote
Jan Tinbergen
My reflection when I first made myself master of the central idea of the Origin was, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work. View quote
William Gibson
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. (Alan Greenspan)
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected. View quote
Lester Bangs
Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth, round which the Sun, the Moon, and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity, and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre. View quote
John Dee
Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point. View quote
John Dee
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'être is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug. View quote
Edward Said