"The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work."

-- Raoul Vaneigem

#World Quotes #Upside Down Quotes #Transformation Quotes

“My family, my friends, and skiing... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for.”
“There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”
“The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1885). “Our country: its possible future and its present crisis”
“Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.”
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
“I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.”
“Apart from if Playboy come calling.”
“Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.”

Source : John Seely Hart (1862). “Mistakes of Educated Men”, p.49

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