"Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production."

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Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

Eric Hobsbawm

#Capitalist Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.”
“Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.”
“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”

Source : Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press
“I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.”
“Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.”
“I guess music is just something I've kind of always done. I never really thought too much about it, it was just another way to create, and I did it as a pretty young lad.”
“Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.”
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

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