"I think there's great potential for autonomy, but……" — Thomas Frank
"I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances."
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82 Quotes by Thomas Frank
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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from…
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Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in…
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Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted…
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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic…
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre…
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Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank…
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These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've…
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What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries…
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During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering…
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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to…
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There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to…
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More Autonomy Quotes
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
— Carrie Brownstein
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
— David Riesman
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
— Denis Waitley
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we…
— Thomas Merton
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While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity…
— Pope Francis
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all…
— Shoghi Effendi
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
— Harold Bloom
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I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the…
— Grover Norquist
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It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and…
— Isaac Asimov
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