"The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Inspirational Quotes #Technique Quotes #Roles Quotes

“I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.”
“Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.”
“I do watch what I eat but I've got a real sweet tooth.”
“The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.”
“Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.”
“It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.”
“I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.”
“I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?”

Source : "The Genelection Game". Sunday Mirror, April 24, 2005.

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