#quality

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it…we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality….In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#equality

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all. ↗

— Cornel West

#america #asks #best #black #corporations

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#equality #existing #finding #friendship #reward

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#enjoyment #expected #luxury #necessity #only

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#best #cannot #develop #only #quality

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#crazy #happened #just #public #quality

Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality. ↗

— David Gower

#brilliant #current #disrespect #had #highest

I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#being #chose #classy #extremely #i

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#anything #art #as far as #doing #else