#circles

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. ↗

— David Antin

#centuries #circles #commonplace #like #literary

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles? ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#black #circle #circles #could #i

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#america #carry #cigarettes #circles #more

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#circles #drinks #house #may #ocean

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#business #circles #i #many #move

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#circle #circles #each #end #eternity

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#both #both sides #causes #circles #extremist

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States. ↗

— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

#circles #international #mexican #mexico #most

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again. ↗

— James Buchan

#bear #before #boom #bust #circles