"Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community."

-- Juliet B. Schor

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Together Quotes

“Only you can allow yourself to be angry.”
“Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
“Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.”

Source : Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. August 15, 2005.
“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”
“That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.”
“There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.31, Profile Books
“They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.”

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