Mehrnoush Nourbakhsh Rey Quotes & Sayings

Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag. — David Bentley Hart

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. — Carre Otis

When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon. — Chuck Klosterman

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. — David Miliband

Everything I do, I do for love. — Marian Bantjes

Magnus was a really cool guy. — Cassandra Clare