#api

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#art #artists #because #certain #closed

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#amidst #believed #darkness #escapist #even

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#capital #cheap #cost #credit #down

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#capitalism #peasants #serious #tendency #toward

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#could #enemy #experience #rapid #times

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#capital investment #condition #element #first #gm

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#reaping #sowing

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#common #common interests #impossible #interests #laborers

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving