#redefining

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like. ↗

— David Graeber

#capitalism #redefining-consumption #dreams

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#away #basics #between #core #family

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem. ↗

— Tim Cook

#focus #problem #redefining #scaling #things

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#redefining #revolution #scientific #socialism #terms

There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#constantly #how #hurdles #i #just

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty. ↗

— Lance Loud

#chief #claiming #coming #distinct #honesty

MTV has always been about redefining itself. ↗

— Martha Quinn

#always #been #itself #mtv #redefining

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#being #decisions #extreme #heard #impose

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done. ↗

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

#child #common #cut #described #done

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now. ↗

— Rita Dove

#american dream #different #different people #dream #i