Susie Orbach Quotes

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

Susie Orbach

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• Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Together
  • Future
  • Society

• Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Control
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Country
  • Society
  • Culture

• That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really

• In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Help
  • Energy

• When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It's a challenge because I have to do a lot of navigating to make the production stellar but do it on a realistic budget.

  

  Kaskade
  • Me
  • Control
  • Challenge

• The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Past

• Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Control
  • Victory

• A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Society
  • Perfect

• 'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Control
  • Hurt
  • Enemy

• Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Political

• In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Time
  • Society

• Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business
  • Control

• If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Control

• The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Change

• Soldiers - You are about to return to your homes and your friends, after having, as I learn, performed in camp a comparatively short term of duty in this great contest. I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Country
  • Friends

• Look, it was an accident. Five thousand accidents happen every day - bizarre, tragic, farcical... they're Acts of God fit only to amaze the survivors and irritate the Insurance Company...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • God
  • Insurance

• We feel most small, we feel most challenged when we're only focusing on ourselves. Because even when you fulfill yourself, meaning you get what you think you want, you still find yourself in a position where it's never enough.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Enough

• Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

  

  Susie Orbach
  • Society
  • Control
  • Needs