Occupy Oakland Quotes & Sayings

Take responsibility for our lives and recognize that we choose how we react to situations and that we can choose to be free if we so wish. — Tom Hodgkinson

It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning. — Cintra Wilson

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. — Robert Zoellick

In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are. — Charles Eisenstein

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. — Max Weber

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it. — Billy Ray Chitwood

Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as Paul Klee who find the thoughts of men of science compatible with art, influence me far more than most photographers. — Wynn Bullock