#commerce

Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and pimple cream and growth hormone-treated hamburger meat and premature sex drives and costly, fleeting, violent sublimations. It's all part of the conspiracy . . . all of it trying to convince them that they're here to be trained for lives of adventure and glamor and heroism, when in fact they're here only to be trained for more of the same, for lives of plunking in the quarters, paying a premium for the never-ending series of shabby fantasies to come, the whole lifelong laser light show of glamorous degradation and habitual novelty and fun-loving murder and global isolation. ↗

— Alex Shakar

#commerce #love

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#based #commerce #even #like #religion

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time. ↗

— Robin Day

#commerce #every #every time #going #lose

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#center #commerce #had #lot #music

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#any #commerce #controls #country #industry

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#applications #carry #e-commerce #get #information

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#bid #blessings #commerce #descending #hand

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#always #art #because #between #collision

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce. ↗

— Michael Oxley

#also #e-commerce #essential #leadership #now

Money is the best rule of commerce. ↗

— William Petty

#best #commerce #money #rule