Michael Burawoy  - Quotes

 ...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced. 

Tags: capitalism   collective   communism   existence   marxism   socialism   sociology   utopia     


Ayn Rand  - Quotes

 All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . . 

Tags: collectives   committees   incompetency   nothingness     
Toba Beta  - Quotes

 It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress,

but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.
 

Tags: collective   demand   development   knowledge   life   market   society   technology   truth     


Terence McKenna  - Quotes

 The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. 

Tags: collective   culture   dreams   history   imagination     


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