Distance Quote by Robert J. Shiller Download Open image “Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.” — Robert J. Shiller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distance Meeting Oppression Seeing
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
As we blaze it up we see clear to progression. We no deal with oppression. — Julian Marley Copy Share Image
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression — John Locke Copy Share Image
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the global financial… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some people would never invest in Europe - I think… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
When I see the Trump supporters on television explaining themselves, I don't get a feeling of supreme confidence. They've created a revolution, and now… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I didn't vote for Trump. So we've got him. Let's hope for the best. He might do something good. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. I want to… — Linda Olsson Copy Share
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university.' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share
To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death. — Toshihiko Seko Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
