Skybar Quotes & Sayings

As neoliberalism wages war on public goods and the very idea of a public, including citizenship beyond membership, it dramatically thins public life without killing politics. Struggles remain over power, hegemonic values, resources, and future trajectories. This persistence of politics amid the destruction of public life and especially educated public life, combined with the marketization of the political sphere, is part of what makes contemporary politics peculiarly unappealing and toxic - full of ranting and posturing, emptied of intellectual seriousness, pandering to an uneducated and manipulable electorate and a celebrity-and-scandal-hungry corporate media. Neoliberalism generates a condition of politics absent democratic institutions that would support a democratic public and all that such a public represents at its best: informed passion, respectful deliberation, aspirational sovereignty, sharp containment of powers that would overrule or undermine it. — Wendy Brown

If all you got to live for is what you left behind
get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine. — Grateful Dead

But it's like the feeling you get at the end of a book you love. — Stuart Murdoch

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. — Marcel Proust

Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible. — Ben Cohen

When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.]. — Tracy Morgan

The state of our surroundings, tells the conditions of our soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing! — Prince Philip

That genius is a rare exception ( It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure. — Eric Hoffer

Don't discredit people because of their age. You never know how much someone has accomplished until you've known them — Adam Snowflake