“Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.” ShouldRealProduceCriticismPrisonUniversityPrisonerContinuingVocationHardenedCounterfeitCounterfeit Money Author:Randall Jarrell
“We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.” PeopleThinkingNeedsEconomyPolicyProduceDisciplineSkillsLosingTrainingInstitutionsPlotDriversContinuing Author:Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
“Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.” HumansTodayFightingLinesCompanyProduceIntellectualCompetitionBottomSuperiorsDependentComparisonContinuingBottom LineMembershipOutput Author:Arie de Geus
“Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.” ImportantWarTodayCausesPovertyConditionsProduceInternationalDeeperTensionContinuingDistress Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements
“US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But of course it is just easier to terrorise people.” PeopleHas BeensTwoGovernmentCoursesPolicyProduceEasierTerrorismStrikesPeacefulTargetVillageContinuingBostonMarathonAttackingBombingTwo DaysDronesGovernment PolicyYemenBoston Marathon Author:Noam Chomsky
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.” MenBelieveOrderForceI BelieveChangeBeautyEconomicGreatnessProduceShapesContinuingAbstractionExceptionalNobilityShiftingValidity Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays