Top 79 Firestone Quotes
#1. When one of the children of his friend Harvey Firestone boasted that he had some savings in the bank, Ford lectured the child. That money was idle. What the child should do, Ford said, was spend the money on tools. "Make something," he admonished. "Create something.
David Halberstam
#2. We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,
Fred Upton
#3. It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.
Lisa Firestone
#5. No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.
Shulamith Firestone
#6. I've been thinking about Skinny Dave. I wonder if he's in heaven, up past the glittery constellations, in some paradise-shaped other dimension. I want him to be there, far away from the demons that betrayed him.
Carrie Firestone
#7. You don't need some vintage thing with another woman's secrets stuck to the seams.
Carrie Firestone
#8. Love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon
it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.
Shulamith Firestone
#10. I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.
Harvey S. Firestone
#11. Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.
Shulamith Firestone
#12. Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.
Harvey S. Firestone
#13. Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
Shulamith Firestone
#14. He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.
Shulamith Firestone
#15. Maybe heaven is another dimension, and our dreams are a portal.
Carrie Firestone
#16. And soon I'll return to the white rose of Yorkshire, where the sky bathes my soul with a watering can.
Carrie Firestone
#17. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
Harvey S. Firestone
#19. Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world ...
Shulamith Firestone
#20. They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be "channeling" someone else's thoughts and feelings.
Lisa Firestone
#21. All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate
and I wish I could find one.
Shulamith Firestone
#22. People tried to force me to feel better. But the only things that worked were time and distraction. Distract yourself. Stay busy. Count marshmallows, study frogs, whatever it takes. Time heals all wounds. It just does.
Carrie Firestone
#24. Cheers to all the fun we've had. There are no words for the joy you have brought me. I love you, honey.
Carrie Firestone
#25. A revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
Shulamith Firestone
#26. Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.
Shulamith Firestone
#27. Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.
Shulamith Firestone
#28. That's my point. If you view the world as gross, you'll never be able to enjoy it.
Carrie Firestone
#30. New theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.
Shulamith Firestone
#32. The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.
Shulamith Firestone
#33. Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person's life.
Lisa Firestone
#34. The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.
Shulamith Firestone
#35. Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.
Shulamith Firestone
#36. The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects
if never erotic objects.
Shulamith Firestone
#38. Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.
Shulamith Firestone
#39. I am awestruck that life can give us such breathtaking beauty.
Carrie Firestone
#40. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
Shulamith Firestone
#41. To those who would love me - I offer you a warning. Do no get to close. You won't survive.
Julie Johnson
#42. A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.
Lisa Firestone
#43. For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.
Shulamith Firestone
#44. Next time we're on the couch, zoning out in front of the tube, we'll be wondering why we're wasting precious time when we could be making extraordinary moments.
Carrie Firestone
#45. Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.
Shulamith Firestone
#46. We can best help our children not by sacrificing ourselves for them, but by trying to fulfill our own lives. When we are involved in an honest pursuit of our own goals, we serve as positive role models for our children.
Lisa Firestone
#48. The pain of losing doesn't get less with each person I lose. But I have the wisdom of knowing the pain isn't forever. That fades. The memories stay. And the love isn't going anywhere.
Carrie Firestone
#49. The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.
Shulamith Firestone
#50. The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.
Shulamith Firestone
#51. In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.
Lisa Firestone
#52. But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.
Shulamith Firestone
#53. People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.
Lisa Firestone
#55. Take the pain and grow beauty...You know I've always loved volcanoes. I love how they spew searing, deadly lava that goes on to nurture the most beautiful landscapes on earth. It's from searing pain that the deepest beauty can sprout
Carrie Firestone
#56. Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives.
Lisa Firestone
#58. A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.
Shulamith Firestone
#59. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone
#61. Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.
Shulamith Firestone
#62. (Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
Shulamith Firestone
#63. If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
Shulamith Firestone
#64. [U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.
Shulamith Firestone
#65. To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.
Lisa Firestone
#66. Childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun.
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)
Shulamith Firestone
#67. It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.
Shulamith Firestone
#70. He will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.
Shulamith Firestone
#71. Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
Shulamith Firestone
#74. Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
Harvey S. Firestone
#75. Mom always says to leave him alone, that he's an introvert and he needs to get his energy from a quiet place inside himself and that she can relate. I think he gets his energy from paint fumes and really good wee.
Carrie Firestone
#76. Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.
Lisa Firestone
#77. The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.
Shulamith Firestone
#78. The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality
Robert W. Firestone
#79. The end goal of feminist revolution must be ... not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.
Shulamith Firestone
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