Famous quotes containing the word complex:
“The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (18581915)
“I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadnt got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I dont believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.”
—Freya Stark (18931993)
“Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”
—Michel Foucault (19261984)