Top 20 Jon Elster Quotes
#1. The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.
Jon Elster
#2. You may house their bodies but not their souls,
Kahlil Gibran
#3. If I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.
Jamaica Kincaid
#4. What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you
Oprah Winfrey
#5. Part of me thinks the slowness is on your side.
Kiera Cass
#6. When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
Geoffrey Nunberg
#7. The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.
Jon Elster
#8. In another illustration of reactance, children (and adults too) may refuse all proposals about how to spend the day, even the one they prefer, because they do not want to feel imposed upon.
Jon Elster
#9. Tell her this
And more,
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.
Stephen Crane
#10. No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.
John Perkins
#11. Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie.
"You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him.
"Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.
Connie Willis
#12. In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium ...
Jon Elster
#13. She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
Emily Dickinson
#14. Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.
Jon Elster
#15. You foreigners," he said. "You come to China and complain about the
pollution, but I don't know why." He then gestured at the blurred
landscape around us. "To me, this place smells like money.
Paul Midler
#16. My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
Oprah Winfrey
#17. Money feels funny in my hands. If I give you this slice of paper, you let me on the bus? It's ridiculous.
Cameron Jace
#18. Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.
Jon Elster
#19. Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
Gerry Spence
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