I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.”
“In a partner I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is conscientious about the trail he leaves behind him. Love. Unconditional kindness. Basically, I'm looking for the qualities I revere in my friends.”
“In a patriarchal culture, to be human is to be at war with the animal self.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.”
“In a pattern of misrepresentation that is repeated on other issues, Hochschild at first mentions this inconvenient fact and then proceeds to say the opposite for the entirety of the book. The fiefdom “was shared in no way with the Belgian government,” which “had no legal authority over [Léopold] as ruler of the Congo,” he alerts readers. Yet not only the subtitle of the book but laced throughout are constant smears against European colonialism.”
Source: King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
“In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.”
“In a People’s Organization popular education is an exciting and dramatic process. Education instead of being distant and academic becomes a direct and intimate part of the personal lives, experiences, and activities of the people. Committee members find that they must become informed about the field of activities of their committee; they later discover that in order to be capable of carrying out their own activities they must know about all those other problems and activities that are related to the committee’s work. The committee that becomes interested in housing shortly finds itself involved in the fields of planning, health, race relations, and many other fields. Knowledge then becomes an arsenal of weapons in the battle against injustice and degradation. It is no longer learning for learning’s sake, but learning for a real reason, a purpose. It ceases to be a luxury or something known under the vague, refined name of culture and becomes as essential as money in the bank, good health, good housing, or regular employment.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?”
“In a perfect world, a strong woman nourishes her young boy into a man properly so that he may find another woman who invokes the same qualities and attributes, providing happier, consistent livelihoods.”
Source: In a Young Man's Eyes: An 18-Year-Old's Analysis of Modern Boyhood
“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”
Source: Unwind
“In a perfect world global emissions would have peaked already. In a semi-perfect world we will peak on Dec. 31, 2020. The fact is, that's going to be difficult. We know that it's going to get more and more expensive the longer we delay.”
“In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.”
“In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that will allow us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.”
“In a perfect world, politics is boring, informed by debate but assured of a mutual understanding that the civic good matters. It’s tree-cutting permits and public transport levies and people who go to school for years and years to learn how to best pass a thoroughfare through a residential area. Republicanism, in its current form, proposes the exact opposite—treason trials for political opponents, the stripping away of any societal covenant, a war on expertise. In the right-wing vision of America, every societal interaction is an organ harvest, something vital snatched from the civic body, sold for one kind of profit or another. It’s a vision that produces an almost unmatched clarity in the base, an unmatched loyalty: Which side of this operation do you want to be on?”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.”
“In a perfect world we shouldn’t settle for a relationship that won’t let us be ourselves.”
Is that from a book or a shrink?”
Can we table the sarcasm?”
I’m sorry . . . I just wish it was as simple as the Kraft Mayonnaise-Miracle Whip controversy we never resolved.”
Source: A Kind of Hush
“In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.”
“In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving”
Source: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
Source: Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“In a perfect world, everybody would be gay. I mean if everybody looked like Zach Braff, you just wouldn't be able to resist.”
“In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique”
“In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.”
“In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.”
“In a perfect world, I would do 3 weeks on 3 weeks off; so that I could always take a breather and come back to music with a fresh mind.”
“In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.”
“In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.”
“In a perfect world, Joshua‟s vertically gifted murderer would‟ve had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would‟ve announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his god‟s country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect.”
“In a perfect world, mothers would remind their daughters each morning of how beautiful their strong noses are, or how special their curly red hair is.”
“In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.”
“In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.”
“In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.”
“In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.”
“In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the least. We can show people being murdered on television, but I'm not able to say "chickenshit" in public. At the same time, I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.”
“In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.”
“In a perfect world, we wouldn't have any nuclear weapons. But it's not a perfect world. In fact, it's a very dangerous world.”
“In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.”
“In a perfect world, you can finish out your career where you start. ... It's one of those things you only have so much control over. You have to see how everything plays out and let the system work its course.”
“In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.”
“In a period of extended waiting in life, it is all too easy to assume that something is wrong. We assume that 'something' is us.”
Source: Those Who Wait: Finding God in Disappointment, Doubt and Delay
“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”
Source: The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature
“In a period piece, particularly a fantasy, the lighting is your own choice, the lenses are your own choice. It's really a great thing for a cinematographer to do. Everything is open for you. You can even be more creative and you can use more shadows than usual.”
“In a Permacapital Economy, businesses are born and businesses die. When businesses are providing value to customers and society, and doing so with fair prices, better than their competitors - they remain alive. When businesses are unable or unwilling to provide value to customers and society and are overpriced and worse than competitors - they die. The process is determined by what is best for society, naturally, by the various mechanisms at play in the Permacapital Economy.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“In a Permacapital Economy, the economic value of natural ecosystems and resources - including trees, forests, rivers, oceans, wildlife, insects, bacteria, fungi, etc - and their services to humans must be accounted for in the prices of products and services, and the accounting statements used to report on financial status.”
Source: An Assessment of Historical Economic Frameworks & A Prescription of Permacapital Economics: A Doctoral Paper: Edition 1
“In a Permacapital Economy, the life and death of businesses are natural and essential components of the market’s self-regulating mechanism.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“In a Permacapital Economy, the patterns of production, the uses of private property, the delegation of resources, the regulation of industry/commerce, and the movement of prices are all based largely on the desires and demands of the consumers, within the reasonable limits of regulation.
Too much consumer sovereignty will result in the pursuit of low prices and convenience Being at the expense of good wages, harmony with nature, social cohesion, etc.
Too little consumer sovereignty will result in the dominance of government and industry to the extent that the freedoms (liberties) of the people are infringed upon and the efficiency of the whole economy is reduced.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“In a Permacapital Economy, there is no such thing as waste.”
“In a permaculture economy, all capital is productive capital and all resources are efficiently utilized.”
“In a permaculture economy, every job is an essential job.”
“In a permaculture economy, every job is an essential job. But because of the diversity designed into the system, no one job is of so much importance that's it's absence could result in the collapse of the system.”
“In a permaculture economy, it's less about competition and more about collaboration, cooperation and coordination.”