"Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave."

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Source : Letter to "The New York Times", February 27, 1997.

Ellen Willis

#People Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Economics Quotes

“I believe I was ahead of my time.”
“For me what photographers say about their photos doesn't have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many times - for the boring pictures - people have to say so many things about them to show you there is something to them when many times there is nothing.”

Source : "Josef Koudelka: Formed by the World". Interview with James Estrin, lens.blogs.nytimes.com. November 19, 2013.
“Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in anticipation of supposed long run trends, may concentrate on the wrong issues and make matters worse rather than better.”
“In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.”
“The press seems to love pitting women against each other.”
“I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.”
“Weâ€™re only here for a short while. And I think itâ€™s such a lucky accident, having been born, that weâ€™re almost obliged to pay attention.”
“Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.”

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