Relative Quotes - Page 33

• A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Sheep, Pigs

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• What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

  Judith Martin

  Women, Nutty

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• What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Land, Water

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• The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, Purpose, Definitions

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

  Jared Diamond

  Gorillas, Way, Chimpanzees

  Jared Diamond (2014). “The Third Chimpanzee”, p.20, Oneworld Publications

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• When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Thinking, Government, Talking

  "Lawrence Lessig Has a “Moonshot” Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy". Interview with Joshua Holland, billmoyers.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  Ray Bradbury

  Insanity, Bipolar, Crazy People

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

  David Rockefeller

  Friendship, Family, Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Money, Greatest Wealth, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

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