Quotes for All
Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I’m an … Read more
Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I finished school and in the grand scheme of things it was her who had saved and helped provide for me this opportunity to go to school. G-Eazy
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn’t find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time. Etgar Keret
The music that I make is pretty sincere; it’s from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven’t followed some kind of marketing scheme. Esperanza Spalding
…Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98ยข. Ernest Becker
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. Eric Liu
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation … Read more
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish. Emma Goldman
My only scheme was to be a rapper. Eminem