Quotes About 1950s Consumerism

#1. I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#2. No," I said softly, feeling all the energy run out of me. I was tired. So, so tired. "I don't want a war. I ... I can't unleash something like that."
Then, for the first time so far, Dorian spoke.
"I can," he said.

Richelle Mead

#3. Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn't desire his kiss, she won't be free.

Cassandra Clare

#4. I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

Andy Crouch

#6. ...and life, even at its most wretched, does get it's hooks in you.

Laini Taylor

#7. It's too hard, speaking to aliens. They don't think like you do, and you don't know what you're doing wrong."
"I wonder," the Master of Fandom said with artificial lightness, "if they'll call it 'xenofatigue' and forbid anyone to talk to an alien for longer than five minutes.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

Steven J. Lee

#9. Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Preston Manning

#10. You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

Coleman Young

#11. Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

Brian Kernighan

#12. I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the cap between the person I am and the one I wish I could be. Because the whole fake it till you make it thing? It's not working for me.

Julie Murphy

#13. And now-now I didn't know where that put me. Knee-deep in trouble seemed like a good place to start.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Bruce Lee

#15. What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda