Alter

Famous quotes containing the word alter:

“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in—telephonic, technological and relational—to alter even the slightest bit of behaviour in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

“Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)