Charles Eisenstein Quotes

The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.

Charles Eisenstein

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• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Selfish

• No one wants to see curvy women.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Women
  • See
  • Curvy

• Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Information

• I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Myself
  • Famous

• This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Live
  • Business

• When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Men
  • Change
  • Wait

• Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • American
  • Law
  • Justice

• A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Organization

• My father is my inspiration.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Inspiration

• Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Enough
  • Within
  • Dinosaurs

• All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Women
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Try
  • Radio
  • Chase

• A green, Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| replica watches|renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future - it is now. It is creating jobs - now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-per-barrel oil - now. And it can create millions of additional jobs, an entire new industry, if we act - now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Sky

• The Constitution and laws of the United States resemble a theocracy more closely than any government now on the earth, or that ever has been, so far as we know, except the government of the children of Israel to the time when they elected a king.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Earth
  • Government
  • Constitution

• It wasn’t always going to be morning, and darkness would come around again. The sun would rise, and then the sun would set. And there you were in the darkness again. If you didn’t whistle, the quiet and the dark would swallow you up. The thing is, I didn’t know how to whistle. I guessed I was going to have to learn.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Learn
  • Darkness
  • Swallow

• A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.

  

  Marlo Thomas

• My wife told me that in the Bible, Abraham circumcised himself... wow! I can't even get to the bank before it closes.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Wife
  • Wow
  • Abraham

• The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Government
  • Creating
  • Increase