Instrumentalized Quotes & Sayings

We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost. — Vaclav Havel

For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism as intrinsically unstable, full of contradictions that will lead eventually to its collapse. Its supporters see it as the best way to allocate resources and rewards. Some even hint that the democratic capitalistic society is not just a phase in the historical evolution of economic systems but its ultimate end. — Raghuram Rajan

Around their necks hung ceremonial jewels that glistened like — Dan Brown

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials. — Winston Churchill

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up. — Greil Marcus

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

The hand does not argue with the head. — George R R Martin

My appearance is talking and I like what it is saying. — Georgette Mosbacher

In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met. — David Levithan

We've instrumentalized niceness as a way of greasing the social wheels, yet it's often a ruse. We're polite and we don't disagree to get through daily existence with the least degree of friction. But by turning niceness into a lubricant, we've leeched it of meaning. A smile and a nod might signify "Get me out of here!" as much as it means "Nice to meet you." That's — Chris Voss

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs. — Matthew Lesko

mental scoreboard: Syndicate 1, Nate and Lucy 0. — Steven Stickler

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it. — Matthew Henry