Burawoy Michael Quotes & Sayings

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism. — Mignon McLaughlin

I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society
call it communism, if you will
in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced. — Michael Burawoy

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips. — Bruce Springsteen

I didn't want to see it. I didn't think he'd ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn't. — Elizabeth Scott

People talk whether you're in school or not, but it doesn't dictate anything. You choose how much you allow people to rule you. — C.M. Owens

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made. — Juliette Lewis

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. — Ada Lovelace

Sparrows and pigeons and a blackbird were celebrating the morning in the courtyard. — Ruth Downie

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms, — Alan Greenspan

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard. — Patricia Riggen

Maurice once said to me- when I had asked him a question rather like yours - he said, "An answer is always a form of death" There was something else in her face then. It was not implaceable; but in some way impermeable. 'I think questions are a form of life — John Fowles