Commodified Debt Quotes & Sayings

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you. — Michael Phelps

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld. — Jim Hightower

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run. — Andy Warhol

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. — Jennifer Beals

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. — Joseph Pilates

You can blackmail me into going on dates with you and you can have your friends kidnap me, but you can't tell me why you do it?" she asked him in disbelief.
"Look, you'll find out eventually and you won't like it, I know. I try hard to get you to feel something towards me so that when you find out, you won't fight me," he whispered in her ear. — Kayla Krantz

The history of mankind is a history of war. — Mike Love

I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism. — Angela Y. Davis

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this. — Judith Martin

Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot. — Anna Seghers

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it. — George Eastman

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters. — Mort Sahl

What mental darkness, what ignorance of the truth blinds those who, though afflicted by the fear of poverty, yet take pleasure in imitating it! — Seneca.

The loners are always trouble. You know that. — Alex Scarrow

He was talking about hire purchase. precredit cards. A different way of getting the poor into debt, but I think he was right. It was nice when ordinary people could take a holiday in Spain, of course, but easy credit is what started the cultural rot. Tourism depends on lots of people everywhere with loads of disposable wealth, which means all kinds of changes through a place a cultivates it. The real, messy, informative past disappears to be overlaid with bad fiction, with simplified folklore, easy answers. Memory needs to remain complex, debatable. Without those qualities it is mere nostalgic sentimentality. Commodified identity. Souls bough and sold. — Michael Moorcock