"The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed."

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Source : "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

Jim Stanford

#Fall Quotes #Order Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
“When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. I said, No, I want to sing all the other stuff. If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.”
“No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.”

Source : Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.163, Random House
“The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.”
“Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.”
“I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.”
“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”
“I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and Iâ€™m humbly aware of how much less a person Iâ€™d be â€“ how less a human â€“ if they did not exist.”

Source : Rick Bass (2001). “Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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