Agonic Quotes

#1. People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

Eric S. Raymond

#2. You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

Terry McAuliffe

#3. a chin that could destroy small countries if it fell into the wrong hands.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

Julio Iglesias

#5. Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

John McCain

#6. I actually hate when people open my gifts, and I hate opening gifts in front of people.

Kourtney Kardashian

#7. If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

Matthew Henry

#8. Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.

Ross Macdonald

#9. The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Ben Katchor

#10. There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure you.

Frederick Lenz

#11. States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

Arne Duncan

#12. You're broken, and you depend on those looks to give you something you've been without. It doesn't work that way, little lady.

R.J. Lewis

#13. Quite likely he would be in the cellars of the Ministry of Love within three days, but a cigarette end must not be wasted.

George Orwell

#14. Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

Wyatt Earp