#off

Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance. Once I came to this conclusion, I started to dig deeper into the company's other promises--great working conditions, musical discovery, fair treatment of farmer, and concern for the environment. Every time I went excavating, the stories turned out to be more complex, more heavily edited, and more ambiguous than I had first thought. Each time, it became clear that Starbucks fulfilled its many promises only in the thinnest, most transitory of ways and that people's desires went largely unfulfilled. ↗

— Bryant Simon

#community #starbucks #music

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#daily #daily life #dust #life #off

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#respect #respect

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#nightmare-fuel #science-fiction #steven-moffat #science

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. ↗

— Holly Lisle

#life #offense #writing #death

What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#soul #want

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. ↗

— Thucydides

#elections #fairness #losing #office #democracy

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#blind #case #character #could #elektra

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#compliments #little-women #louisa-may-alcott #coffee