Sahlins Marshall Quotes & Sayings

One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture. — Marshall Sahlins

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength. — Maria Montessori

We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free. — Marshall Sahlins

Literature became an arsenal where the poorest and the weakest could always find weapons to their hand. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller. — John Updike

God moves mountains to create the opportunity of His choosing. It is up to you to be ready to move yourself. — Andy Andrews

For years, we'd been the thorn of the neighborhood, the dirty little secret that wasn't so secret. The girls who just wouldn't settle. — Kat Zhang

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology. — Marshall Sahlins

The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. — Marshall Sahlins

Gifts make friends and friends make gifts. — Marshall Sahlins

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. — Augustine Of Hippo

People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can. — John C. Maxwell

I don't believe Rush Limbaugh has a racist bone in his body. — Mike Pence

Ray was looking extra Oompa-Loompa-like this morning with his fake tan a seemingly brighter shade of orange than usual. His brown hair matched his personality - slick and greasy. "Morning, — Ann Charles

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." - HUSTON SMITH16 — Ray Kurzweil

I used to jog every day and call it my 'gratitude run.' I'd make my gratitude list as I ran. I never ran out of things to be grateful for. My knees aren't what they used to be, but I still do my gratitude list every day. — Sheryl Crow

No sex, huh? That sucks, cause I'd love to have sex with you. — Blue Ashcroft