Gift Economy Quotes

#1. Sandro never cared about reciprocity. Sex is not about exchange values, he said. It's a gift economy.

Rachel Kushner

#2. They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose their wildest, most glorious freak. They weren't protesting; they were celebrating.

Jonathan Talat Phillips

#3. The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

Charles Eisenstein

#4. Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.

Claudia Rankine

#5. In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.

Charles Eisenstein

#6. A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

Edmund White

#7. Is it really necessary to reward the CEO with several million dollars? Why isn't it logical or common sense to pay the minimum-wage employee another quarter, give a quarterly fifty-dollar bonus, or even provide a two-hundred-dollar gas gift card?

John-Talmage Mathis

#8. Well, I don't know. Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I don't dwell much on what I am or how I got this way. It just is. I just am. I'm Max, and whatever form I take, it's good enough for me.

James Patterson

#9. Extraordinary versions of people only exist when engagement is present.

Kevin E. Phillips

#10. I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

Brian Lindstrom

#11. Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity ... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

Victor Hugo

#12. I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.

Joy-Ann Reid

#13. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

Ray Lee Hunt

#15. The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#16. In the linchpin economy, the winners are once again the artists who give gifts. Giving a gift makes you indispensable. Inventing a gift, creating art - that is what the market seeks out, and the givers are the ones who earn our respect and attention.

Seth Godin

#17. Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Deepak Chopra

#18. Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

Ann McLane Kuster

#19. Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

Randall Terry