Dislocation – Quotes

Imagination of my kind

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life. Elizabeth Bowen

I think, as an

I think, as an actor, you’re always traveling. There’s a sense of dislocation sometimes from home. Felicity Jones

If dislocation is a

If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty dress from the thrift store, perhaps the solution is not to cast it aside. If dislocation is a tatty dress, perhaps the only solution is to mend it, scent it and wear it … Read more

Trade agreements are a

Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too. David Brooks

The problem is, to

The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn’t have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don’t adjust, and that’s how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don’t adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations. Charles … Read more

Legalized drugs would cause

Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy – the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its … Read more

I don’t like the

I don’t like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It’s not conducive to having a life. Bob Mould

We have to deal

We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples fears that their children won’t do as well as they have. The more aggressively and effectively we deal with those issues, the less those fears may channel themselves into counter-productive approaches that pit … Read more

[The] aim is not

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy. B. H. Liddell Hart