Fox Piven Quotes

#1. As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.

Alessandro Del Piero

#2. Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

Frances Fox Piven

#3. I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

Frances Fox Piven

#4. I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

Frances Fox Piven

#5. There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

Ian Somerhalder

#6. God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.

Smith Wigglesworth

#7. What's right is relative, isn't it?

Marie Lu

#8. In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

Bahman Ghobadi

#9. I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

John Mahoney

#10. We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we're really - that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.

Tavis Smiley

#11. I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

Frances Fox Piven

#12. I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

Mary J. Blige

#13. How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?

Ted Dekker

#14. I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

Frances Fox Piven

#15. Higher-order functions allow us to abstract over actions, not just values.

Marijn Haverbeke

#16. The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.

Frances Fox Piven

#17. We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children.

Michael Specter

#18. I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.

Frances Fox Piven