Our institutions and values are in jeopa…

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality — do whatever makes the most money.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Barry Schwartz

Our instinctive emotions are those that …

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand Russell

Our lives don’t really belong to us, you…

Our lives don’t really belong to us, you see — they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Paul Auster