“The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.” MindHardWantedFunGoalTermSeriousCallingPureNegativeLifetimeFinalsAlternativesAnalysisOccupationOfferingShort TermHippieColorful Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.” WorldMayProblemSeemsTurnsRoomsViewsStudySeriousCivilizationSolutionsUniversalInstitutionsFinalsContemptAdoptionWorld ProblemsMyopia Author:George F. Kennan
“How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan.” PeopleYearsEndsLastsPoliticalPartyPlansSeriousFinalsUpsetReflectingProposeGoverningBindingProgrammesDead EndsReferendums Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
“But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove everybody who's got a final order of removal? When I say enforcement theater, what I mean is a kind of pretend enforcement.” PeopleKindMeanShowsOrderEffortSeriousCoupleHundredTheaterFinalsRemoveEnforcementRemoval Author:Mark Krikorian