Karkinos Greek Quotes & Sayings

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. — Walker Evans

Words travel, because the word arctic comes from arktos, Greek for bear. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, karkinos. Memory, or one of its locations in the brain, the hippocampus, means seahorse. A bestiary is buried in our language. — Rebecca Solnit

Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords. — John H. Walton

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. — Augustus Hare

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept - our own selves - that we love. — Fernando Pessoa

The amount of coercion needed to make society adhere to the model is "a rough measure of the model's validity." "That the Soviet Union had to use so much coercion undermined the credibility of communism as a model of reality," he said. "It is perhaps symptomatic that the USA, a society that elevates freedom to the highest position among its values, is also the one that has one of the very largest penal systems in the world relative to its population. It also inflicts violence all over the world. It tolerates a great deal of gun violence, and a health service that excludes large numbers of people. — Chris Hedges