Fairly Quote by Jeff Vandermeer Download Open image “I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.” — Jeff Vandermeer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fairly General Institutions Movements
Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has… — Bob Kerrey Copy Share Image
I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility. — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“Perhaps only I could truly make Wick a person, by forgiving him, and if I forgave him, if I showed I forgave him, then… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“What if an infection was a message, a brightness a kind of symphony? As a defense? An odd form of communication? If so, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government. — Michael Ledeen Copy Share Image
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly… — John Hull Copy Share Image
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
I'm pretty low-key. I travel fairly light, especially on the tour. — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
I think what we do is fairly unique on 'Psych,' and we just have to keep doing that because that's what got us where… — James Roday Copy Share Image
Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
