It is an intellectual and moral vacuity that has crippled what the World Social Forum's founders sincerely hoped would produce some sort of democratic alternative to what they saw as the heartless corporate model of globalization.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Few things have been as misdirected and counterproductive as all the talk about safeguarding some im... CARL BILDT It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels ... NORMAN SPINRAD The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he jus... RICK PITINO She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ... JACK WELCH The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within... NANCY PEARCEY What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality ac... PETER HAIN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because th... JILL SCOTT HBO is not an advertiser-based model, it's a subscription model. So what's significant to HB... MICHAEL MANN I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where... KEITH OLBERMANN What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians wo... JIM HIGHTOWER We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON It was Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez who benefited most from the World Social Forum's enthusi... TERRY GLAVIN If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actuall... DIPLO We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, be... ALBER ELBAZ For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They ... DINESH D'SOUZA If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precis... HUGO BLACK The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is i... YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... BEN SCHNETZER A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown... TOVE JANSSON See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product... VIGGO MORTENSEN We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflec... KOFI ANNAN It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person wh... JOHN MICA Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a pi... GIGI HADID What is happening with automation and globalization, that's not going away. CAMPBELL BROWN It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely descri... HERBERT CROLY I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I... KELLY MASTERSON Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being th... MURRAY GELL-MANN The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That'... SAUL WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always jo... MADELINE KAHN Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' ins... IAN HACKING If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corpo... HENRY KRAVIS 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' struc... ALAN MOORE It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias. TED CRUZ Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It... ALAN GREENSPAN Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral ... GEORGE MCGOVERN God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us.... DEYTH BANGER What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task a... PAUL GRAHAM Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. GORDON GEE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which see... GREG LYNN Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,... STEVEN PINKER Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What... PATRICIA HEWITT The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work. DOUGLAS CONANT The expectation of a good harvest makes the farmer to plant his seed SOTONYE ANGA There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to... JOHN LEWIS What is needed is the intelligent management of Earth's resources. If we really wish to put an e... JACQUE FRESCO The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the... BRUCE KENT It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped ... ANDY PARTRIDGE Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do... DOUGLAS CONANT If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the big... ERIC TRUMP The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the Ne... MIROSLAV VOLF Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa... C. JOYBELL C. It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the... BILL SIENKIEWICZ Man is a breathing DUST, while woman is a breathing BONE SOTONYE ANGA Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what cons... ALEX TABARROK For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do... CONNOR FRANTA People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But b... AYN RAND What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm huma... ROBERT GRAVES Globalization has been very good to Corporate America. JOSEPH QUINLAN How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON This is a challenge. It means that what you do in a secular, modern democracy may offend people in s... FLEMMING ROSE History has been made in Seattle, as the allegedly irresistible forces of corporate economic globali... LORI WALLACH Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mock... RACHEL KUSHNER We saw what they were planning, and it gives us some idea of what some of the issues are. MARK TOSO I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find str... ANDY BIERSACK A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary soci... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary soci... WYNDHAM LEWIS The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being ... EDWARD RUSCHA I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and ... KAREN GILLAN He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD Every person in life is social,but our social lives are directed towards what we sincerely love,to s... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasie... MIRA SORVINO I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as ... ALAN G. POINDEXTER I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik... HARPER LEE When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demo... PETER MANDELSON Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do... JOE TORRE Nothing less than 7 inches. CASSANDRA CLARE
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TERRY EAGLETON After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in... TERRY EAGLETON HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE... TERRY PRATCHETT There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach sma... TERRY PRATCHETT The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp... TERRY PRATCHETT [And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward... TERRY PRATCHETT Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. TERRY PRATCHETT Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv... TERRY PRATCHETT You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag... TERRY PRATCHETT A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand... TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a... TERRY PRATCHETT Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet... TERRY PRATCHETT I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th... TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi... TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done. TERRY PRATCHETT Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ... TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe... TERRY PRATCHETT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ... TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ... QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. TERRY RILEY It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ... TERRY EAGLETON Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo... TERRY PRATCHETT Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu... ELLEN TERRY There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w... TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro... TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM