“I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.” ThinkingWholeAgreeCorporateOrganizedTexasSectionsBeltsOrganized Religion Author:Hunter Parrish
“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.” DoeMadeSelfWholeIndividualExistenceSocietyMovementPromiseOffersAnxietyMassAbuseDifficultyAbsolutesFollowingDoctrineCuresMiserableCorporateRisingMeaninglessFrustratedRefugeAbsorbingAbsolute TruthTrue Believer Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.” ThinkingIdeasWholeCompanyCorporateMake SenseWelfareAwardsCynicalProfitable Author:David F. Swensen
“GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.” WholeFallCloudsFocusedCorporateInvestorsProfitability Author:James Fisher