“"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.” ThinkingNeedsTryingTodayLife IsPositive ThinkingDependsUniversalCrisisLife Is LikeSewersTimes Of CrisisTrying Times Author:Tom Lehrer
“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.” ThinkingNeedsFormHumanityTermAbilityDependsDemandBehaviorUniversalAbsolutesNotionConvictionTranscendenceAbsolute Power Author:Talal Asad
“In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.” MenWorldGivingMayFormLawRealizingLossBusinessBreakDependsEqualUniversalDollarsCentsBalancedGood WillUnwiseBusiness WorldUniversal LawsFuture Business Author:Walter Russell
“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"” PeopleBigsTurnsBoysLike YouDependsUniversalElectionInstrumentsDemocraticChiefsPlatformsDictatorshipDictator Author:Dorothy Thompson
“What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civil, social and economic, and broadly cultural, to adopt the framework of the Universal Declaration that is formally endorsed but constantly undermined.” SocialStruggleRightsEconomicDependsUniversalDemocraticRelatedDeclarationGovernanceFramework Author:Noam Chomsky