Leon Trotsky Quotes
As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
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You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
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I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.
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As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.
