- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live Quotes
Different ways of living, side by side.
This collection uses "live" as its thread but covers unusually varied ground — from reflections on how long humanity might last, to observations about wealth and poverty coexisting closely in Mexico. For quotes on love and connection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live is to feel oneself lost.
- Nov 07, 2020
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020