At the heart of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century there was an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production, which was accompanied by a catastrophic dislocation of the lives of the common people
― Karl Polanyi
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
Campus Life at
Ulster University
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
~ A. J. Liebling
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Campus Life at
Tsinghua University
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Hail fellow, well met.
~ Jonathan Swift
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There is not an idea that cannot be expressed in 200 words. But the writer must know precisely what he wants to say.
~ Eric Hoffer
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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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