#peak

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster. ↗

— John Michael Greer

#economics #myth #peak-oil #age

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#issues #relating #speak #taxes #voice

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich. ↗

— Viola Davis

#be different #behind #dialogue #different #eyes

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#conformity #controversy #cost #counted #crackpot

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! ↗

— Harry Hopkins

#damn #dumb #dumb people #excellent #foreign

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#budget #costumes #done #exactly #form

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges. ↗

— Edwin Edwards

#dead people #i #ill #judges #live

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#defensive #does #education #general #higher

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#because #countless #dare #freedom #know

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. ↗

— John Ford

#heart #message #speak #tongue #well