I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“in a sky whose darkness is fading, that
first dream, from which I am now waking.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“In a sleep caused by the drowsiness
of defeat, she dreamt of endless travel
into darkness.”
Source: KILLER
“In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.”
“In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.”
Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition
“In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.”
“In a small community, alien takeovers, portals to Hell, and demonic murder cults can better establish a foothold.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“In a small community sex constitutes the most accessible and least extravagant pastime of all, rustic love being rarely mercenary.”
Source: Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]
“In a small company, the CTO, R&D, the COO, and even the CEO or cofounders or owners can be responsible for reviewing documentation. Don’t rely on your memory; write it down. Ideas become reality when we speak them and write them. So document them in an idea journal (digital or traditional) without judgment at the time. Inventors (and especially software developers) tend to edit or judge ideas and conclude they are not patentable because they were simple—even though they solve important problems and do not exist elsewhere.”
Source: The IP Miracle: How to Transform Ideas into Assets that Multiply Your Business
“In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.”
“In a small garden, timing can be every bit as valuable as extra ground.”
Source: Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
“In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.”
Source: Poland: A Novel
“In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.”
“In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.”
“In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive... Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.”
“In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton’s songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!”
“In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.”
“In a smell it all came back...that autumn rain, the scent of a love that once was ripe, that immense hunger to touch the tender wound for it is still so raw and fresh. The scent of the quiet evenings still smells in the breeze..Love letters..how they hold the memories of yesterday!..”
“In a smell it all came back...that autumn rain ..the scent of a love that once was ripe..that immense hunger to touch the tender wound...for it is still so raw and fresh...Those quiet evenings still smell in the breeze ...Love letters..how they hold the memories of yesterday!...”
“In a snow-white field near Moscow, I want you above all to hear how sad my living voice is.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.”
“In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'”
“In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record.”
“In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.”
“In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.”
“In a social system there are three levels of democracy. The lowest level is the undemocratic system, where the government falsifies the voting system. This is a political tragedy. The middle level in a democratic hierarchy is pure democracy, where both the government and the opposition are in tough competition in political elections. This level of democracy is reminiscent of political drama. And the last - the highest level - is supra-democracy, where the falsification of the electoral system is carried out by the opposition, which leads to a political comedy in the political arena.”
“in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.”
Source: Heartburn
“In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.”
“In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.”
Source: Collected Works
“In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and experience directly through our senses. Public life in good quality public spaces is an important part of a democratic life and a full life.”
“In a society bent on progress, stability is treason.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“In a society brimming with empathy and compassion, the concept of homelessness would cease to exist; for it is through the genuine sharing and caring for one another that we eradicate the silence of suffering and build the symphony of a harmonious humanity.”
“In a society constructed of self-perpetuating elites a grass roots movement exists to be walked on. Elites tumble down but the grass survives to spring again through the thickest pavement.”
Source: The Whole Woman
“In a society dominated by irrationality, it is difficult to come to power with rational discourses. So what to do? You must use irrational discourses! The rational part of the society will understand your tactic and vote for you. What about after coming to power? Irrational discourses should be completely thrown away and the country should be governed with rational policies. In fact, the easy part of the job is to win elections, the hard part is to manage the country with rational policies. The history of the world is full of examples that led their countries to disaster by applying irrational policies after winning an election.”
“In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.”
Source: The Jungle
“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”
“In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.”
Source: Only Words
“In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.”
“In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.”
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else's legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed?
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“in a society in which power is so abstract that it can no longer be seized, in which the worst threat people feel is solitude and not alienation, conformity to the norm becomes the pleasure of belonging, and the acceptance of powerlessness takes root in the comfort of repetition.”
Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music
“In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.”
Source: Sex, Death, and Money
“In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.”
“In a society not characterised by class exploitation, the relationship between the processes of surplus-production and reproduction of labour-power is qualitatively distinct from that characterising societies in which exploitation dominates...surplus-labour is identified by the nature of its contribution to social reproduction, not by the fact that it is provately appropriated.”
“In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.”
“In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.”
Source: The Unconscious Civilization
“In a society of increasingly mass-produced, assembly-line entertainment, where every individual is treated like an empty pitcher to be filled from above, jazz retains something of the spirit of the handicrafts of yesteryear. The print of the human spirit warms it. Deep down, jazz expresses the enforced & compassionate attitudes of a minority group and may well appeal to us because we all have blue moods and, in a fundamental sense, none of us is wholly free.”
Source: The Story of Jazz
“In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.”
“In a society of living, breathing and thinking humans, your personal life is not different from your social life - and if it is, then such separation between the personal and the social leads to a fake society, with fake emotions and fake decency - such separation only creates a fake civilization.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise.”
Source: The Krishna Cancer