Binmenqash Quotes & Sayings

...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount and use of purchasing power, would result in the demolition of society. For the alleged commodity, "labor power" cannot be shoved about, used indiscriminately, or even left unused, without affecting the human individual who happens to be the bearer of this peculiar commodity. In disposing of a man's labor power the system would, incidentally, dispose of the physical, psychological, and moral entity of "man" attached to the tag. Robbed of the protective covering of cultural institutions, human beings would perish from the the effects of social exposure; they would die as the victims of acute social dislocation through vice, perversion, crime, and starvation. Nature would be reduced to its elements, neighborhoods and landscapes defiled, rovers polluted, military safety jeopardized, the power to produce food and raw materials destroyed... — Karl Polanyi

Drug-pushers, God-pushers, sex-pushers, art-pushers-all kinds of pushers. — Marty Rubin

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco. — Charlie Munger

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here? — Jodi Picoult

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea. — Steve Martin

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first. — Renee O'Connor

Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes. — Tahereh Mafi

Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons. — Bubba Watson

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. — Aaron McGruder

The blues have hope wrapped inside them. — Andrea Davis Pinkney

The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge to preserve an artistic statement is very interesting. It takes things a step further. — Marc Quinn

As a song writer when I first was aware of the Beatles and started, you couldn't avoid hearing it, not that I, I tried. And what, what struck me was not so much the songs or the part of the songs that, that seemed unique to me were, was more melodic at the beginning than, than the lyrics because they were still talking about, you know, I love you, I don't love you and I need you or don't need you. — Jeff Barry

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. — Nelson Mandela

The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things. — Sarah M. Eden

The goal of my life isn't just ... to be happy.
'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though? — Veronica Roth