Wallerstein World Quotes

#1. Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

Tullian Tchividjian

#2. Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

David McCandless

#3. The world system is coming to the structural crisis

Immanuel Wallerstein

#4. Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals ... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

Cyndi Lauper

#5. We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Walt Kelly

#6. What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. The problem is the cost of an effective operation, which is enormous, and thus must be paid by someone via some form of taxes.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#7. It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown significantly under historical capitalism. And for these people, the world they know is better on the whole than any their earlier counterparts knew.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#8. There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

Thomas Sowell

#9. The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#10. QUIET NOW, MONKEY-CHILD. DREAM.

Jay Kristoff

#11. Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Miguel De Cervantes

#12. It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#13. The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#14. The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

Brian Moynihan

#15. I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Nile Rodgers

#16. As a driver, you always want to be in the car getting as much experience as possible; especially when there's something new like different tyres.

Romain Grosjean

#17. As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.

Tyra Banks

#18. When Time magazine conducted a poll in Europe in March [2003] asking which of three - North Korea, Iraq, or the United States - was the biggest threat to world peace, a whopping 86.9% answered the United States.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#19. I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

Immanuel Wallerstein