Stenarter Quotes & Sayings

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like'. Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. Until we see how unbalanced our culture has become at this point, we will not be able to deal with the mammon spirit within ourselves nor will we desire Christian simplicity. — Richard J. Foster

The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us. — John Battelle

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or she is being able to express the expectations of a great mass of people, then he or she is much more of a translator of the aspirations and dreams of the people, instead of being the creator of the dreams. In expressing the dreams, he or she is recreating these dreams. If he or she is humble, I think that the danger of power would diminish. — Myles Horton

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation. — Ernst Mayr

It [love] was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance. — John McGahern

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence. — Benjamin Disraeli

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated. — James Tooley

I draw him closer by his tie and whisper into his ear, Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life. — Stephanie Perkins

The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing. — Peter Lynch

You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping — Aristotle Onassis

As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value. — Zainab Salbi

It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take
great pictures. — Constantine Manos

English physicians kill you, the French let you die. — Charles Lamb