Famous quotes containing the words world and/or heritage:
“My uncle Toby had scarce a heart to retalliate upon a fly.
Go,says he, one day at dinner, to an over-grown one which had buzzd about his nose ... go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into the heritage of Europe as though it were its patrimonyunaware, alas, of the fact that Europes declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.”
—Hannah Arendt (19061975)