Elise M. Boulding Quotes
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.
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Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
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Since property here exists in the form of stock, its movement and transfer become purely a result of gambling on the stock exchange, where the little fish are swallowed by the sharks and the lambs by the stock exchange wolves.
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I was invited to do an all-female improv festival in Portland called All Jane, No Dick. The person running it asked me if I had a female improv team, and I just said yes and then figured out who I would want to bring with me. We had such a fun show together that we decided that we should keep doing it.
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I have a lot of albums yet to do.
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Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.
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The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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You never know how long you have with someone, so don’t forget to say I love you while you can.
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He’s more myself than I am.
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
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There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
