Famous quotes containing the words external and/or affairs:
“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)