Zeitz Museum Quotes & Sayings

In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn't do well enough on their SATs to write their own rules. Only the weak and the feeble and the young - -well, not even the young anymore - -need to obey. Funny, because the root of the word obey is from the French verb meaning "to listen, or to give ear to." It was never intended as a militant word, but one of hearing, of understanding. Of getting it. For a world obsessed with staying in constant communication, we aren't really very good listeners. — Heather Choate Davis

The antidote to fear of man is faith in God. — Anonymous

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes. — Jochen Zeitz

Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary ... — Erwin Schrodinger

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that. — Jason Isaacs

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone ... and not just for a few. — Nestor Kirchner

Only two or three months ago, one of the Tokyo newspapers (I can't remember which) admirably reported that a two hundred inch astronomical telescope in America was halfway toward completion. I should like to praise the editor of that newspaper. Articles about war, foreign affairs, and the stock market are not the only things that should be considered newsworthy. A two hundred inch lens can magnify our view of the cosmos considerably. The scope of human vision will expand tremendously. It will become possible to see what was once impossible to behold. It will be a momentous occasion, as though the whole human race, once blind, is granted the gift of sight. Its importance is unrivalled by any war. — Rampo Edogawa

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order. — Nelson Rockefeller

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength. — Marquis De Sade

The spiritual fire defines the strength of faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

people can take you to a great place, but God takes you to the best place. — Mariam

The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of
Chris Chandler. — Peter Yarrow