114 quotes found
“This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.”
“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere o...”
“Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenonparents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms of their hands, mesmerized like drug addicts, longing f...”
“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.”
“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole world through the relation of supply and demand...”
“So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this I used to be one of them. Id always known Dell would disappear one day; he was too decent, too golden. This place never tainted that, a...”
“This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No obstacle can withstand patience. Wait. You may not think so now, but there will come...”
“Saul stared at his Whisky Sour. He hadnt heard from Zoe in about a week. Maybe she had lost interest. All at once, the room was filled with people laughing, talking about how wonderful it was to be...”
“Capitalism does not merely oppressworkers on the factory floor. It creates anentire culture in which the logic of oppressionand competition become commonsense. It turns people against each otherand...”
“Capitalists too, as the novelist Charles Dickens noted, liked to think of their workers as 'hands' only, preferring to forget they had stomachs and brains. But, said the more perceptive nineteenth-...”
“The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content bu...”
“I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills Take control of your world.”
“In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bondage is both brought about and concealed by the periodic sale of himself, by his change of masters,...”
“It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.”
“Fear is a subject that I have become increasingly aware ofthe result of a period that I call post-divorce. Admittedly aware of the general concerns about falling too, I am more concerned about the ...”
“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”
“It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.”
“Fuck I hate fucksWho think theyre so fucking greatThey know everything about fucking,When theyre just fucking fucks fucking!And no one changes the fucking worldWhen they keep fucking to another fuc...”
“If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and b...”
“I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frameof everything.”
