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 am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.

  

  Nate Powell
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• 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

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• 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'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Boy
  • Going
  • Favorite

• 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

• A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Father
  • Government

• Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Song
  • Write
  • Record

• President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Support
  • Option
  • Health care

• It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Sad
  • Right

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

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Government
  • Creating
  • Increase