"In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on."

-- Thomas Frank

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Tycoons Quotes

“the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.”

Source : Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press
“Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.”
“In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.”
“We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.”
“I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.”
“I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.”
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
“I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied.”

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