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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 67843b2 | As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." --" | Ray Kurzweil | ||
| 18f07b3 | There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end. | Athenaeum Fragments | ||
| 27e841d | Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins explains that "the world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civ.. | Christopher Ryan | ||
| 87a423c | The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, surveying the data on contemporary hunter-gatherers, exploded the Hobbesian myth in an article entitled "The Original Affluent Society." They work a lot less than we do, and their work is hard to distinguish from what we regard as play. Sahlins concluded that "hunters and gatherers work less than we do; and rather than a continuous travail, the food quest is intermittent, leisure abundant, and there is a.. | anthropology capitalism eco-socialism labor primitivism work work-life-balance | Bob Black | |
| 14d2ddc | Never forget that scars are life. They tell us that our wounds have healed. | Richard C. Morais | ||
| 8c15c3c | mi lugar en el mundo no era otro que permanecer delante de una tina de aceite hirviendo, | Richard C. Morais | ||
| 9d54817 | Before the white man became universally disliked for his mental outlook, it was there. The white man found only too many people who looked different. That was all that outraged the receivers of his discrimination, that he applied the technique of the wild jiggling dance and the rattling tin cans to anyone who was not a white man. | white-racism | Bessie Head | |
| 790af7e | When no one wanted to bury a dead body, they called the missionaries; not that the missionaries really liked to be involved with mankind, but that they had been known to go into queer places because of their occupation. They would do that but they did not often like you to walk into their yard. They preferred to talk to you outside the fence. | missionaries | Bessie Head | |
| 21dcdeb | There was something Dikeledi called sham. It made people believe they were more important than the normal image of humankind. She had grown up surrounded by sham. | Bessie Head | ||
| 1b43166 | She headed straight for the Kinvig Room and the first lecture of the day. The doors were still shut when she arrived, and she was just wondering what they were waiting for when a loud voice called for attention. "If I could just have everyone's attention for a moment? Please, can you all quiet down?" Bessie turned and spotted Harold at the far end of the room. He really needed a microphone to make his voice loud enough to be heard over the .. | Diana Xarissa | ||
| 774d333 | She is so good, your wife." "Yes," said Alexander. "So fresh and young. So lovely to look at." "Yes," said Alexander, closing his eyes. "And she doesn't yell at you." "No. Though I reckon she sometimes wants to." "Oh, to have such restraint in my Bessie. She used to be a fine woman. And the girl was such a loving girl." More drink, more smoke. "But have you noticed since coming back," said Nick, "that there are things that women just don't .. | Paullina Simons | ||
| 8721ef8 | The man who slowly walked away from them was a king in their society. A day had come when he had decided that he did not need any kingship other than the kind of wife everybody would loathe from the bottom of their hearts. | maru | Bessie Head | |
| 79d38d8 | Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of artsand eloquence, native to famous wits. | Athens | ||
| e24f527 | Let there be light! Said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! | Athens | ||
| c9e6a34 | Those big, jiggle breasts, so close to him. | Atlanta Nights | ||
| d991876 | Who is John Galt?" | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 5b0b795 | Man? What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| b9da33f | Wasn't it evil to wish without moving--or to move without aim? | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 6a21310 | Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 061ea3e | I am leaving it as I found it. Take over. It's yours." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| a8ba239 | The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 9c7768d | Guilt is a rope that wears thin." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 6fd9648 | The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 66f8f04 | Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 30c1241 | Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 81991d1 | Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 4619f09 | To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 43e34ed | Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 78ef839 | The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 8fed1de | Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them." | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| 6a8cd8f | Get the hell out of my way!" | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| c04bb1b | We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. | Atom | ||
| d3eea63 | I don't believe that atoms exist! | Atom | ||
| c7821c2 | Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton. | Atom | ||
| 19b2fe0 | For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. | Atom | ||
| 4561ef0 | REST IN PEACE. THE MISTAKE SHALL NOT BE REPEATED. (Hopefully) | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | ||
| f8892b7 | If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | ||
| 0f58edb | A Thousand Paper Cranes. Peace on Earth and in the Heavens. | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | ||
| 525cf6c | Should I not atone for the sins I have committed,All that I have ever said will be a lie. | Atonement | ||
| 569e31a | Going up to them, But has its bright moon. | Atsujin | ||
| 27151af | Earth and metal ...time and tide go on. | Atsujin | ||
| 5ae069d | The SeaWhatever the drop's philosophy. | Attar of Nishapur | ||
| 192d09e | I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise. | Auberon Waugh | ||
| dad5acd | Humbleness and effeminacy are not things that a great cricketer can afford to have. | Aubrey Faulkner |