Lyotard Libidinal Economy Quotes & Sayings

There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else. — Chespirito

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. — Bob Dylan

Everything we want in life is because we really want the emotion behind the goal. We want to feel accomplished, happy, powerful, and good. So we want the car, the house, the spouse, and the money because we believe they will bring us those emotions. All goals are really emotions disguised as things. And fear is the contrary belief that we either won't get those things or will lose them once we have them. — Emily Maroutian

In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe. — Julius Streicher

Yes, we started out as the Sex Maggots, then became the Goo Goo Dolls, well, and we're still the Goo Goo Dolls! — John Rzeznik

Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough — Jean-Francois Lyotard

Culture is concerned with the world of values. All cultures are irreducibly value-oriented. — Henry R. Van Til

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. — Anne Bronte

To some extent I liken slavery to death. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. — George MacDonald

I guess in some people's lives, no one tells you what to be, and so you be nothing. — James Franco

I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to the point where we are sitting here. — Justin Long

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you. — Scott Westerfeld

Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented. — Vivek Shanbhag

When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union. — Sonny Perdue