Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Popular Topics
Think, Dream, Funny, Possible, Wonderful, Heart, Knowledge, Intelligent, Light, Period, Reality, Thinking, Ocean, Feelings, Peace And Love, Drama, Things, Enthusiast, Good, Teacher, Town, Evidence, Difference, Ideas, English, America, Quiet, Job, Life Is Good, Air, Children, Oceans, Relationships, Like, Art, Private Life, Surprised, Looking For Love, Gossip, Amazing Music, Lives, Memorable, Afternoon, Thank You, Feeling, Pleasures Of Life, Mother'S Day, Today, Technical, Love You
Eula Biss

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Believe, News, Innocent, Willingness, Entirely
Same Author Quotes

That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.

Art, Children, Entirely, Motivation, Robbing, Wealth

What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes. ' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.

Real, Reading, Book, Argonauts, Dazzlingly, Enjoy

One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.

Amount, Country, Cousin, Fear, Recognized, Seen

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

Country, Luxury, World, Fears, Rest

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

Asset, Children, Doe, Placed, Sense, Understanding
Similar Quotes