Interesting Quotes

Sean M Fitzgerald MS

Geographer

'Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things' Waldo Tobler, 1970 Economic Geography 46: 234-40 AKA The 'First Law of Geography'

 

"It (motion) separated the most unlike kinds furthest apart from one another, and thrust the most alike closest together; whereby the different kinds came to have different regions, even before the ordered whole consisting of them came to be." Plato, Timaeus 53:a Circa 340 BCE.

 

"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done remains undone." (Kong Fu Zi aka Confucius)

 

"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means." Karl Von Clausewitz

 

"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed". Mao Tse-Tung

 

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton

 

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." Aristotle

 

'Walls are monuments to the stupidity of man; whatever can be built by man can be destroyed by man' (or Nature)

Adapted from George Patton ‘War as I new it' 1946

 

Think Geographically and ask Geographic Questions! Develop a geographic model to know and understand the world. Wisdom is in-part talking about global issues with others, and in-part taking action. 'We lose our power in this world by not using it. So, it is not how we feel ourselves inside that defines us, it is what we do that defines us.' (Me, and Fleetwood Mac & Batman Begins)

 

'Religion is a flower; which often has language and ethnicity as stem and root.'

 

'Edges of Belief can be soft and malleable, or hard and unyielding, but they are most certainly transitory in the face of history'