Daniel Bell Quotes
What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
Daniel Bell
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
Paolo Bacigalupi
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields
Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
J. B. Pritzker
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
N. K. Jemisin
Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
Edmund Morgan
You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
Dan Stevens
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
Ted Demme
There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think.
John McEnroe
I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
Mahatma Gandhi
I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.
Pia Zadora
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
Daniel Bell
