Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.
If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C. E. O. s and finance ministers.
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. . .
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's putting people in their place.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.
I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.