Georg Simmel Quotes

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.

Georg Simmel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: March 1, 1858 - September 28, 1918

Topics

MenOpportunitiesDevelopmentUs

It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

John Barrasso

AmbitionGreenCongressWillUp

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

Andrew Weil

HealthSimpleTreatCareToolsDiet

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

John Keegan

MenLongWhyExtraordinaryGoneHow

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John McDonald

SuccessYourselfMindHouseFirst

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

John Tyndall

KnowledgeLightBeyondBoundaries

I love L.A. - don't get me wrong. But I miss everything about New York. I don't eat cheese, but I miss the smell of pizza in the city. I'm a really big fan of Latino food. I want to go back home and have some good arroz con pollo.

Tristan Wilds

LoveGoodHomeFoodNew YorkPizza

My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.

Chris Hadfield

FatherDayWeekendLongGoPilot

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Constance Baker Motley

BlackOpenStudentsSouthernState

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

Chuck Close

LifeGreatRoadFaceSomeonePerson

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

Brenda Blethyn

ClassyAwardsWellAffairEngland

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

FutureTodayWorldPresentAmerica

Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

SocietyBurdenUnderstandCashHuge

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