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It’s quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor.
Speaker: Pierre BordieuSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Debt peonage, it would appear, is far more likely to inspire outrage and collective action than is a system premised on pure inequality.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Through most of history, when overt political conflict between classes did appear, it took the form of pleas for debt cancellation, the freeing of those in bondage, and usually a more just reallocation of the land.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer which is wrong.
Speaker: H.L. MenkenPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense.Speaker: RumiPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.
Speaker: L. Frank BaumPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There’s no place like home.”
The Scarecrow signed. “Of course I cannot understand it. If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places.”Speaker: L. Frank BaumSource: The Wonderful Wizard of OzPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When people say “clean as a whistle,” they forget that a whistle is full of spit!
Speaker: George CarlinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When I was a little boy I used to read about the decline of western civilization. And I decided it was something I’d like to make a contribution to.
Speaker: George CarlinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. “200 dead as Number 3 slams ashore,” is not nearly as interesting a headline as, “Charlie kills 200.” Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it.
Speaker: George CarlinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them. I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
Speaker: George CarlinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you’re emotionally detached from it. And I’ve always viewed it from a safe distance.
Speaker: George CarlinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Speaker: Lao TzeSource: The Tao of PoohPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
While pounding on piano keys does create noise, removing them doesn’t exactly further the creation of music.
Speaker: Benjamin HoffPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One disease: long life. No disease: short life.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. It’s mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time because it doesn’t look very deeply into things to begin with.
Speaker: Benjamin HoffSource: The Tao of PoohPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The wise are not learned. The learned are not wise.
Speaker: Lao TzeSource: The Tao of PoohPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Speaker: John von NeumannPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
And you may not know it, my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor, and attack it as such.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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