#them

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#economic #end #ends #infinitum #man

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#aids #because #employ #eventually #exactly

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. ↗

— Boss Tweed

#care #constituents #damned #help #how

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes? ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#ask #grow #how #investments #investors

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#dedication #economic #economics #equilibrium #general

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them. ↗

— George Wald

#most #people #them #things #trouble

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

#connects #does #equivalent #knowledge #link

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#cannot #heal #only #punishment #spirits

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#achieve #arrested #become #come #fail

I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#characters #come #i #like #love