Potemkin Village Quotes

#1. We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa's sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#2. Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.

Dean Cavanagh

#3. I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love!

Ljupka Cvetanova

#4. Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness,

David Pietrusza

#5. I Lie and that's the Truth

Lebogang Lynx Bopape

#6. The war drops its question mark. Memos are distributed. The collections must be protected. A small cadre of couriers has begun moving things to country estates. Locks and keys are in greater demand than ever.

Anthony Doerr

#7. I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good - good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Aldous Huxley

#8. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

John Marshall Harlan

#9. In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.

John Sweeney

#10. Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

Kieron Gillen

#11. Christ! Ye scairt the bowels out of me.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. The death is a bearable certainty. If it would only hurry.

Dervis Susic

#13. We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

William Arthur Ward

#14. The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

Craig Stadler

#15. For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

Christopher Nolan

#16. Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton