Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who believe in a planned socialism uncontaminated by private profit-seeking. Both are bankrupt. The future, like the present and the past, belongs to mixed economies in which public and private are braided together in one way or another. But how? That is the problem for everybody today, but especially for people on the left.
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
No matter where it is in the sky. . . No matter where you are in the world. . . the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view.
That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.
Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.