Charles Eisenstein Quotes

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

Charles Eisenstein

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• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • American
  • Community
  • Sports

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Believe
  • America
  • History

• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Fans

• As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Best
  • Progress
  • Engagement

• Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Community
  • Media
  • Trans

• I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

  

  K. Flay
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Like

• A member of the community should conduct himself always by word, mind and body in such a fashion that it results in help to the society. He should also make his own men understand this.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Help

• Our party needs the youth but the youth also need the parties to help them organise. Neither will succeed in overthrowing this regime without the other. We don't want the international community to label our revolution an Islamic one.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Help
  • Community
  • Party

• We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time
  • Live
  • Real

• Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • Community

• We want to create a community of girls who will be empowered to become catalysts for transformation in their communities.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Community
  • Transformation

• It's nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It's very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Community
  • Nice
  • Fashion

• Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Up
  • Time
  • Community

• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Work
  • Family
  • Love

• I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Family
  • American
  • Healthy

• The composer makes plans, music laughs.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Plans
  • Composer
  • Laughs

• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Myself

• The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Community
  • Abundance
  • Isolation