"Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time. It's a mantra conveniently invoked when it is proposed that government do something the faithful don't like, and just as conveniently ignored whenever they want government to do something for them."

-- Edward S. Herman

#Reality Quotes #Government Quotes #Comforting Quotes

“It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets”
“I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous”
“There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have a real legislative mess, in the meanwhile various bad people are developing all sorts of tools to exploit the Internet for their own gain and the militaries are beginning to develop some extremely frightening offensive capabilities in cyber. Yet all of this is taking place outside of any international agreement or even framework.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.”
“God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.”
“Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make government more ethical or religious.”

Source : John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context”
“We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”

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