Profeten Stamboom Quotes & Sayings

But the more time has been released from production, the more imperative it has become to absorb that time in consumption and consumerism, given that, as was earlier argued, capitalist 'economic rationality has no room for authentically free time which neither produces nor consumes commercial wealth'. The ever-present danger is that freely associating and self-creating individuals, liberated from the chores of production and blessed with a whole range of labour-saving and time-saving technologies to aid their consumption, might start to build an alternative non-capitalistic world. They might become inclined to reject the dominant capitalist economic rationality, for example, and start evading its overwhelming but often cruel rules of time discipline. To avoid such eventualities, capital must not only find ways to absorb more and more goods and services through realisation but also somehow occupy the free time that the new technologies release. — David Harvey

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect? — James K.A. Smith

And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on. — Eleanor Cameron

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. — Benjamin Disraeli

The way I see it, we're all a little bit crazy, and that's what makes life interesting. — H.M. Ward

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it. — Dinaw Mengestu

I'd watch his smooth chest rise and fall with each steady breath, I'd watch the pulsating of his stomach when he laughed, and I'd never forget to make a comment or two about the wispy trail of grey fuzz that lined up perfectly centre with his body - and I thought that straight lines didn't exist in nature.
"Look at that old man hair," I'd say, purposely trying to get a reaction from him. Sometimes I'd even run my hand over his stomach so that he'd feel it.
He'd grab my hand to make me stop, or pretend that he was going to hit me as he laughed with me. "At least I don't have a grizzly bear ass like somebody I know. — Ashley Newell

Maester Luwin says there's nothing in dreams that a man need fear.'
'There is,' said Jojen.
'What?'
'The past. The future. The truth. - Bran & Jojen — George R R Martin

When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation. — Mary Lambert

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right. — Robert Frost

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses ... Each generation ... will have its creed. — Alain LeRoy Locke