Best quotes by Tom Hodgkinson on World

Checkout quotes by Tom Hodgkinson on World

• ‟ Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

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• ‟ Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

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• ‟ What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

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• ‟ Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

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• ‟ Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.

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• ‟ The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

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