"Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system."

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Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

Herbert Schiller

#Heart Quotes #Essence Quotes #Connections Quotes

“The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.”
“I don't skip practice, I'm not late for meetings, I'm professional in everything I do, you never hear about me not showing up for planes and missing flights, so why is it that I'm always being labeled a bad guy?”
“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.”
“For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.”
“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!”
“Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!”
“If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't.”

Source : "Michael Buerk criticises female presenters who 'cry ageism'" by Hatty Collier, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2014.
“If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.”

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