Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.
When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.
I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.
In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.
love is the biggest con of all
I know many lives worth living.