#ourselve

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#avarice #every #fair #foul #gods

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too. ↗

— Kerry King

#dig #doing #fans #i #know

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#follow #go #go to hell #hell #individual

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#children #creating #economics #enormous #genuinely

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#little #make #more #ourselves #out

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. ↗

— Jane Rule

#degrading #each #education #liberation #love

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#certain #dishonesty #endure #endures #everyday

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#debts #i #obstruction #suggest #won

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned? ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#being #conned #ourselves #point #realize

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#conscious #earth #given #highly #make