Smallest Meaningful Unit

Famous quotes containing the words smallest, meaningful and/or unit:

    The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.
    Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)