I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.
With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry. . . If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.
I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. . . . I didn't think it would be like this