Frances Fox Piven Quotes

#1. A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

Joe Moore

#2. No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

P.D. James

#3. Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Steve Jobs

#4. They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

Cassandra Clare

#5. You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?

Charlotte Bronte

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

Frances Fox Piven

#7. My sweet, there are altogether too many respectable ladies in the world. The supply has far exceeded the demand. But there's an appalling shortage of attractive pirates, and you do seem to have a gift for plundering and ravishing. I think we've found your true calling.

Lisa Kleypas

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

Frances Fox Piven

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

Frances Fox Piven

#10. Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

Terry Pratchett

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

Frances Fox Piven

#12. I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Charles Fort

#13. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.

A.E. Housman

#14. I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

Chris O'Dowd

#15. The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.

Pete Carroll

#16. Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#17. 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

#18. Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Dean Koontz

#19. Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

Hugh B. Brown

#20. 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

#21. 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