Planned Economies Quotes & Sayings

PROGRESSIVISM = EUGENICS: Centrally Planned economies tempt population control. — A.E. Samaan

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional. — A.E. Samaan

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character. — Quentin Tarantino

Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals. — Gene Luen Yang

We distill happiness from garnering joy in the ordinary fragments of life, while dedicating personal effort to creating a body of work that one can look back on their deathbed and be satisfied with achieving. Happiness comes from living beautifully, which necessarily involves reason in thought and speech (logos), and leading an ethical and virtuous life devoted to achieving worthy goals. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves. — Sakyong Mipham

And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me. — Erin McKean

Pretty isn't beauty. Pretty is how you look; Beauty is who you are. Pretty is in the face and body; Beauty is in the heart, mind and soul. Pretty fades; Beauty grows. — Michael Josephson

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India ... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. — Ignatius Of Loyola

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you. — John Sheridan

Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion. — Felix Guattari

In the event of total freedom, the desire to dominate rules just as tyrannically as it does with centrally-planned economies. Freedom gave us capitalism, which has come to mean bosses ordering workers about. Workers aren't free; they are chained by their biological needs. Where is their freedom? Oh, the freedom of mobility? They can quit their jobs and work elsewhere? They can switch from one slave-owner to another? The capitalist vision ignores the capitalist reality, which is that bosses tells workers what to do under pain of death by starvation. Tell me that is freedom some more. Tell me another good one. — Robert Peate

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things. — David Hume

Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who believe in a planned socialism uncontaminated by private profit-seeking. Both are bankrupt. The future, like the present and the past, belongs to mixed economies in which public and private are braided together in one way or another. But how? That is the problem for everybody today, but especially for people on the left. — Eric Hobsbawm

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics. — A.E. Samaan

She had thought that 'depression' would be like sitting in a rocking chair and not being able to make it move. She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands. She couldn't stop thinking; she couldn't find her way free from apprehension. — Elin Hilderbrand

Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers. — Solange Nicole

When success turns a man's head he faces failure — Alfred North Whitehead

I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it. — Kate Bornstein