Symbolically Speaking Quotes & Sayings

Corporations continue to do their dirty work in poor countries. At the turn of the 21st century, the World Bank put pressure on Bolivia to privatize water services. Bechtel, the engineering giant, took control of this vital resource in Cochabamba. Bechtel's executives immediately raised the price of water so high that most people could not afford it. Its contract, made in collusion with the Bolivian government, gave Bechtel the right to charge people for water they took from their own wells. Bechtel even sent collectors into people's homes to demand payment for rainwater that people gathered in pots and pans on their roofs. — David Zindell

Decadence begins when men no longer find within themselves a reason to relate their lives to that of others and not when material resources run short. — Anonymous

Everything is wrong.
I am alive. — Victoria Aveyard

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half. — Yoko Ono

Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide. — Vladimir Bukovsky

the golden eternity is { } — Jack Kerouac

When we drew up to the soldiers, Felix told them who he was and about the griffin he was bringing in. A soldier eyed me. You have new slaves too? — Jennifer A. Nielsen

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. — Oliver Goldsmith