Clastres Quotes & Sayings

A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future. — Peter Schiff

It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is a history of their struggle against the state. — Pierre Clastres

I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side. — Mark Hoppus

It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty. — Pierre Clastres

All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought — Sydney Banks

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing. — Julie Harris

The mobile Internet is growing, fueled by increasing smartphone penetration and better networks. — Chua Sock Koong

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years. — Rusty Schweickart

Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same. — Grant Cardone

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have. — Vera Farmiga

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. — Leonard Baskin

The war machine is a concept that Deleuze and Guattari pulled from Pierre Clastres who said that indigenous and nomadic peoples live in such a way that war isn't a thing that sometimes interrupts peace, but war is actually a common condition that peace sometimes interrupts. And war isn't just lethal violence at all times, there's also a playful element to it. — Anonymous

Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow. — Harley King

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable. — Donald A. Norman

Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future. — Eric Fellner

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble. — Rod Serling

A wise person makes use of one opportunity where as a fool misses a thousand. — Matshona Dhliwayo