friendship

"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."

"The 4 aspects of each of the media actually constitute the four features of all metaphors. In other words, all human technologies whatever are, in the fullest sense, linguistic outerings, or utterings…"

"Oh my friends, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown! Oh my friends and fellow-countrymen, the slaves of an ironhanded and a grinding despotism! Oh my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workme…"

"Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be."

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

"Everybody fills in forms to say they are doing the right thing, but they don't actually look at the factory to see what is happening inside."

"Generally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding ; and that of coercive assignment, of differential distr…"

"I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I — of my friends as well in silence as in conversation."

"And some sad news… the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities."

"This concept of capital-rebuilding is so important that it may be desirable to digress for a moment. In the broadest sense of the word, capital means the sum total of the valuable things possessed by …"

"We can't call Afghanistan minnows. They beat all the teams in the qualifiers and progressed. We are taking them very seriously. They can upset any team. We have to really play well to beat Afghanistan…"

"Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers."

"I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam."

"In this book Neil Fligstein takes issue with prevailing theories of the corporation and proposes a radically new view that has important implications for American competitiveness."

"But the investors who really follow the market, the ones who call up all the time, ninety percent of them really don't care whether they make money or not."

"Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself."

"Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle, as the saying is."

"In fact, honour, duty and love of one’s own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression …"

"In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were,..."

"All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men."