Empty Weight

Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or weight:

“With empty hands we come; empty handed we go.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language.... To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)