"The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction"

-- Tony Benn

#Moving Quotes #Wind Quotes #Politics Quotes

“The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.”
“Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.”
“The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.”
“And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.”
“She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.”
“Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.”

Source : Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.19, Harper Collins
“The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.”
“When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?”

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