Harry Hay Quotes

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

Harry Hay

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• There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Law

• I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Independent
  • Blow

• It's the tyranny of the norm. They are attempting to redefine normal as good. Normal can be controlled, is control. Good can't be. Good has a wildness to it.

  

  Paul Kane
  • Control
  • Normal
  • Norm

• If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Busy

• My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Year
  • Rule
  • Dress

• Amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Move
  • Addiction
  • Running Away

• I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • People
  • Think
  • Identity

• I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Community
  • Strategy
  • Consumerism

• Pussy Riot is against the cult of consumerism and the commercialization of art. Our performances were always open for everyone and anyone can see our video clips for free on the Internet.

  

  Yekaterina Samutsevich
  • Art
  • Free
  • Internet

• I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Aim

• What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Things
  • Lives
  • Consumerism

• There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

  

  Alan Hirsch
  • Powerful
  • Force
  • Consumerism

• the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • World
  • Culture
  • Democratic

• Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but also the biggest consumer in the world. Which means that a lot of things get used, a lot of things get wasted, and a lot of things get churned out in ways that are wasteful.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • Culture
  • Mean
  • Affected

• I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the illusion of having massive amounts of choice and saddles you with the freedom of being able to dabble in that choice. And at the same time, you are left with the tyranny of self-doubt and uncertainty about whether you made the right choice.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Love
  • Choices
  • Selfish

• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Moral

• I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

  

  Al Hirt
  • Tvs
  • Devastated

• Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Helping
  • Building
  • Determination

• I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

  

  Harry Hay
  • Consumerism
  • Gay press