"This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is……" — Thomas Frank
"This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys."
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82 Quotes by Thomas Frank
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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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The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
— Paul Auster
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
— J. G. Ballard
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
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