#world

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#becomes #charge #disengaged #gallery #loses

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#because #contains #does #environment #fit

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#big #billion #bottom #bottom line #companies

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#after #again #bosnia #cambodia #deaths

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#authority #behave #how #i #need

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#dawned #day #every #excitement #fresh

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#conveniently #does #fit #format #into

When you create art, the world has to wait. ↗

— Will Smith

#create #wait #world #you

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#find #head #idea #itself #language

Change your thoughts and you change your world. ↗