English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Cornel West Quotes

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

Cornel West

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness? E. M. Forster
Lin Yutang quote: "Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of..."
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Lin Yutang
Lyle Lovett quote: "It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep..."
It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love. Lyle Lovett
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice"
Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice Fernando Pessoa
Oscar Wilde quote: "If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the..."
If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own? Oscar Wilde
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. Salma Hayek
David Thewlis quote: "When you do something well, this is the best job in the world."
When you do something well, this is the best job in the world. David Thewlis
Marcel Proust quote: "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully..."
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust
You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are. Alan Bates
Fred Allen quote: "Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. Fred Allen
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being..."
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. Friedrich Nietzsche
Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. Kristin Davis
The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket. Jon Lovitz
Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and... Edward Abbey
Hilaire Belloc quote: "Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch..."
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. Hilaire Belloc