"How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?"

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Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin

Tony Judt

#Generations Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Obsessed Quotes

“LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.”
“As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."”

Source : Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin
“Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.”
“There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you shouldn't do. Success is not limited to any one area of your life. It encompasses all the facets of your relationships: as parent, as wife or husband, as citizen, neighbor, worker and all of the others. Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of all the parts: body, mind, heart and spirit. It is making the most of your total self.”
“Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.”
“You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.”
“Mothers are generally starvers or feeders”
“It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.”

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