#din

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are. ↗

— Grace Slick

#based #bothers #excited #friends #good

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#agreement #decision #develop #disagreement #discussion

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#alternative #between #capitalism #difficult #exploitation

No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#actions #authority #body #case #even

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#hall #holding #leading #little #marxist

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#discovery #failure #finding #learn #made

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. ↗

— Adam Smith

#baker #benevolence #butcher #dinner #expect

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

#ambition #desire #directing #great #instrument

The room is the most important thing about recording. ↗

— Adrian Smith

#important #important thing #most #recording #room