Top 22 Quotes by Jay Griffiths

About Jay Griffiths

These are some quotes by British author Jay Griffiths Author, who was born in 1965.

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Jay Griffiths

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

Jay Griffiths

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

Jay Griffiths

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Jay Griffiths

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Jay Griffiths

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

Jay Griffiths

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

Jay Griffiths

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Jay Griffiths

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

Jay Griffiths

I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.

Jay Griffiths

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