"The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures."

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Jerry Mander

#Trying Quotes #Corporations Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!”
“In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.”

Source : "Fear of the dark: Mariella Frostrup goes public" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.
“Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.”
“What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.”
“If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.”
“Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.”
“Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.”
“There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: itâ€™s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.”

Source : Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.138, BookBaby

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