Karl Polanyi Quotes

#1. Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

Karl Polanyi

#2. A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

Coco Chanel

#3. Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

Karl Polanyi

#4. I should have become an "I" before I became a "we".

Irvin D. Yalom

#5. the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the market system would be accompanied by a change in the organization of society itself. All along the line, human society had become an accessory of the economic system.

Karl Polanyi

#6. For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.

Rene Descartes

#7. What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.

Thomas P. Campbell

#8. the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;

Karl Polanyi

#9. The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz's election in 2012 and scored victories in some statewide primaries. But to me, as the Tea Party gets stronger within the Republican Party in Texas, the prospect of a blue Texas becomes stronger and stronger.

Julian Castro

#10. Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.

Karl Polanyi

#11. To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment ... would result in the demolition of society.

Karl Polanyi

#12. When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.

Jools Holland