#dom

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#beliefs #countries #developing #domination #east

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#anarchism #capitalism #freedom #freedom

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. ↗

— Willa Cather

#condition #every #foreign #freedom #freedom from

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#back #beginning #being #being famous #famous

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#best #counsel #divine #excellent #foundation

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#freedom #i #individual #like #limitations

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms. ↗

— Harold Evans

#fell #first #freedoms #i #love

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least. ↗

— Earl of Chesterfield

#always #least #most #seldom #those

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#borders #face #knows #seldom #systematic

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#domestic #enemy #fallacious #hostile #more