U Quotes
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“Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.”
Source: Planning-programming-budgeting: Uses and Abuses of Analysis
“Under capital’s growth imperative, there is no horizon – no future point at which economists and politicians say we will have enough money or enough stuff. There is no end, in the double sense of the term: no maturity and no purpose. The unquestioned assumption is that growth can and should carry on for ever, for its own sake. It is astonishing, when you think about it, that the dominant belief in economics holds that no matter how rich a country has become, their GDP should keep rising, year after year, with no identifiable end point.”
Source: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.”
Source: The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls
“Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.”
Source: Bureaucracy
“Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.”
“Under capitalism, goods can go across borders but human beings cannot. It’s not a weird coincidence, it's a violent political strategy to bar people and privilege some over others. We need to envision a borderless world. Imagining a borderless world is one of the ultimate acts of decolonization because colonialism told us arbitrability there are lines here for you to cross, it is connected to capitalism, exploitation and racism, so challenging capitalism and colonization fundamentally challenges borders. If we are trying to challenge capitalistic structures that are destroying this planet, that means challenging the structures that are continuing to dehumanize human beings and designating people as legal bodies. No one is illegal on stolen lands. If we reject colonization and put ourselves in solidarity with indigenous sovereignty, then we reject that someone can be illegal and discarded.
Getting involved in climate justice work involves everything, it’s not as simple as recycling, or buying local. It's everything from deciding not to be a border enforcer in your community, to being in solidarity with complex indigenous movements all over the world. Capitalism individualizes our suffering. It’s an empowering act to move away from individualizing hardship and instead collectivizing our struggles. Go out into your communities and join collectives, collective movements are the way we fight individualism and capitalism--that we are in this together as opposed to doing this on our own.”
Source: No Planet B: The Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis
“Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.”
“Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.”
Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The
“Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.”
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.”
“Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.”
“Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.”
Source: Language and Politics
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
[Mark Twain, a Biography]”
“Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.”
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
“Under certain social circumstances, which may have varied from time to time and place to place, certain people (shamans) saw a relationship between the small, three-dimensional, projected mental images that they experienced at the far end of the intensified spectrum and fragments of animals that lay around their hearths.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was screwing them. The modern worker, on the other hand, feels a pounding sensation, but has only a vague idea where it is coming from.”
“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit," "free will" -- "unfree will" for that matter), and purely imaginary effects ("sin," "salvation," "grace," "punishment," "forgiveness of sins"). Intercourse between imaginary beings ("God," "spirits," "souls"); an imaginary natural science (anthropocentric; a total denial of the concept of natural causes); an imaginary psychology (misunderstandings of self, misinterpretations of agreeable or disagreeable general feelings -- for example, of the states of the nervus sympathicus with the help of the sign-language of religio-ethical balderdash -- , "repentance," "pangs of conscience," "temptation by the devil," "the presence of God"); an imaginary teleology (the "kingdom of God," "the last judgment," "eternal life"). -- This purely fictitious world, greatly to its disadvantage, is to be differentiated from the world of dreams; the later at least reflects reality, whereas the former falsifies it, cheapens it and denies it. Once the concept of "nature" had been opposed to the concept of "God," the word "natural" necessarily took on the meaning of "abominable" -- the whole of that fictitious world has its sources in hatred of the natural (-- the real! --), and is no more than evidence of a profound uneasiness in the presence of reality. . . . This explains everything. Who alone has any reason for lying his way out of reality? The man who suffers under it. But to suffer from reality one must be a botched reality. . . . The preponderance of pains over pleasures is the cause of this fictitious morality and religion: but such a preponderance also supplies the formula for decadence...”
Source: The Anti-Christ
“Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.”
“Under communism, the conceptual engine that animated the communist ideology was the idea of class struggle, supposedly fought throughout the entire history of humanity. In a liberal democracy, this engine—believed to have been present in the history of humanity since the beginning of time—is an improved version of the original. The Marxists had only “class” as an ideological leverage. In today’s liberal democracy the main ideological triad is “class, race, and gender.”
Source: The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
“Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.”
“Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw -- if uncorrected -- may prove to be the more catastrophic.”
“Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success. There must always be room for judgment, but judgment aided, and even enhanced, by procedure.”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.”
Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future
“Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.”
“Under cover
a coward will strike from any side.
I warn you, friend:
watch out for his sting.
Under every rock is a lurking scorpion.”
“Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.”
Source: Dubliners
“Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.”
Source: tha naked ape
“Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.”
“Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.”
“Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.”
“Under current political dispensation to be an informed citizen, It's very important to understand the Polity of issues than Politics of it. The Polity will lead you to Constitution and politics will create chaos. The choice is yours.”
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
“Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.”
“Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished”
“Under Donald Trump, you know, we've seen the foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party, so Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress.”
“Under each formula lies a corpse.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Under each station of the real, another glimmers.”
“Under efficient public administration citizens do their duties willingly and mention their rights fearlessly.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Under every burden, .....God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, .....His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, .....God will our His balm: Ease the pain and anguish, .....bring a blessed calm.”
Source: Come Away My Beloved Updated
“Under every deep a lower deep opens.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.”
Source: The Autograph Man: A Novel
“Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.”
Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus
“Under every stone lurks a politician.”
“Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.”
Source: Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
“Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.”
“Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it -- at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens.”
“Under fire, trying to get a fugitive out of Honduras: “Their pilot hopped out of the cockpit to allow them entry room. Pack sent Keto [Belgian Malinois K-9] up first. Then he dragged Triandos up. The prisoner’s head pinged off every step on the way up. His head struck the bulkhead as Pack flung his bulk into the cabin. ‘I know there’s a protocol,’ Pack thought, ‘but whoever wrote it was never in this situation.”
Source: Pack's Posse