Mackinder Halford Quotes & Sayings

No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go to non-vegetarians? - because vegetarian food does not contain those proteins which create intelligence. And unless we provide those proteins, intelligence cannot grow. The body is a very delicate phenomenon and it needs a very well balanced diet. — Rajneesh

Man and not nature initiates, but nature in large measure controls. — Halford Mackinder

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner. — Elon Musk

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. — Virginia Woolf

For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world, and may seek a formula which shall express certain aspects, at any rate, of geographical causation in universal history. — Halford Mackinder

Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world. — Halford Mackinder

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. — Gale Sayers

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable. — Father Damien

Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness. — Halford Mackinder