Frazerian Quotes & Sayings

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying. — Marya Hornbacher

Rise from the mud, let the sunshine clense your eyes, and thrust your shoulders into the stars! — Jack London

No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frasier, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology. — Bronislaw Malinowski

Privatization, of course, is based on yet another myth: that government-run programs must be inefficient, and privatization accordingly must be better. In fact, as we noted in chapter 6, the transaction costs of Social Security and Medicare are much, much lower than those of private-sector firms providing comparable services. This should not come as a surprise. The objective of the private sector is to make profits - for private companies, transactions costs are a good thing; the difference between what they take in and what they pay out is what they want to maximize.31 — Joseph E. Stiglitz

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's my job, to create a fantasy. — Anne Heche

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. — William James