[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.
Michael PalinTags: equality democracy capitalism poverty competition poor
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
J. KrishnamurtiTags: education learning teaching competition
Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.
Ivan IllichTags: economics competition modernity
Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
Toba BetaTags: life truth war victory winning law survival rule competition win preservation preserve winner
There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.
Michael ClarkeTags: secrecy compliments competition cricket england-cricket-team 2010-icc-world-twenty20 the-ashes
Jealousy is love in competition.
Toba BetaTags: love jealousy competition
Competition is a rude yet effective motivation.
Toba BetaTags: motivation competition rude effective
I make us better by competing with you.
Toba BetaTags: competition better
Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.
Terry EagletonTags: politics capitalism competition university humanities 2010-uk-student-protest percy-bysshe-shelley tuition-fees-uk
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.
Malcolm XTags: competition tactics
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