Gelosi Troupe Quotes & Sayings

The structure of the corporation is a telling case in point - and it is no coincidence that the first major joint-stock corporations in the world were the English and Dutch East India companies, ones that pursued that very same combination of exploration, conquest, and extraction as did the conquistadors. It is a structure designed to eliminate all moral imperatives but profit. The executives who make decisions can argue - and regularly do - that, if it were their own money, of course they would not fire lifelong employees a week before retirement, or dump carcinogenic waste next to schools. Yet they are morally bound to ignore such considerations, because they are mere employees whose only responsibility is to provide the maximum return on investment — David Graeber

As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once. — Henry David Thoreau

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction. — Sara Sheridan

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year. — Andrew Sarris

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you. — Eric Roberts

Men did not need to have balls to have balls. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In heaven an angel is no one in particular. — George Bernard Shaw

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care. — Stephen King

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. — J. William Fulbright