"Not all design is for the general good."

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Source : ""Not all design is for the general good," says MoMA's Paola Antonelli". Interview with Gabrielle Kennedy, www.dezeen.com. May 15, 2014.

Paola Antonelli

#Design Quotes #Good Design Quotes

“Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.”
“Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.”
“Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.”

Source : James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC
“The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique. And they get real sidetracked trying to think like everyone else. They don't realize that you have to motivate yourself to do things you want to do. Some people just like going along for the ride. And those are the kind of people I don't get along with too well.”
“That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.”
“I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism.”
“The government will take from the 'haves' and give to the 'have nots.' Both have lost their freedom. Those who 'have', lost their freedom to give voluntarily of their own free will and in the way the desire. Those who 'have not,' lost their freedom because they did not earn what they received. They got 'something for nothing,' and they will neither appreciate the gift nor the giver of the gift.”
“Every war is different. Every war is the same.”

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