Notices tagged with q, page 3
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"The idea is that #Corbyn is unelectable, and it’s just one of life’s sad ironies that none of the people who believe this will be able to beat him in an election." #q Frankie Boyle http://ur1.ca/pfpgv
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"Scotland is half empty. You could take the entire migrant crisis, dump them outside of Dundee, and no one would notice; the place is vacant. The food would get better." #q Mark Blythe http://ur1.ca/pernv
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"The Australians are the most hospitable and generous people in the world. If you're stuck for a night, they'll give you a bed. Haven't got a drink, they'll give you a drink. Got no money they'll give you money […] It's those white Australians I don't like." #q Dave Allen
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"Idyll is utterly without stimulus, and all those trees and all that grass drain the spirit." #q Jeffrey Bernard, according to Keith Waterhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Bernard_is_Unwell
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"Hey, can an experienced doctor from Germany show up and start practicing in New York next week? Since the answer is no, we can say that we don't have free trade." #q Dean Baker http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/tell-morning-edition-it-s-not-free-trade-folks
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"Hillary is the unacceptable face of unacceptable faces." #q Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/03/tel-aviv-pins-hopes-on-clinton/ #Clinton
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"Companies have to start treating workers like assets to be invested in, not costs to be cut." #q Hillary #Clinton. Sorry, but nor am I plant and equipment! http://www.ianwelsh.net/pure-utilitarianism-and-capitalism/
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"What is indifference? I don't know, and I don't care." #q Dave Allen
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"What is indifference? I don't know, and I don't care." #q Dave Allen
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"It’s becoming increasingly difficult for any American to comfortably mock the British, who at least have the dignity to consign dynastic power to the largely symbolic realm." #q Glenn #Greenwald http://ur1.ca/p4yxs
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"#Afghanistan, I fear is Mafiastan, fuelled by the billions we ploughed into this poor country after we arrived in 2001." #q Robert #Fisk http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/isis-and-taliban-carving-up-modern-mafiastan
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"When I was young, I would rather give a lecture on mathematics than listen to one. Now that I am older and more mature I would rather give _two_ lectures on mathematics than listen to one." #q R.H. Bing http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/how.pdf
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"The media, as you've probably noticed, have been slightly critical." #q Jeremy #Corbyn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJRlCATAliQ
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"As I used to tell my students, the big questions do not change – the interesting answers do." #q Yanis #Varoufakis https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/yanis-varoufakis-john-malamatinas/open-letter-to-yanis-varoufakis-from-movements-
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"As I used to tell my students, the big questions do not change – the interesting answers do." #q Yanis #Varoufakis https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/yanis-varoufakis-john-malamatinas/open-letter-to-yanis-varoufakis-from-movements-
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"This lush background mythology of gene-selfishness supplies the teleological jam that is always needed to make a thin scientific story go down." #q Mary Midgley http://www.philosophersmag.com/index.php/tpm-mag-articles/11-essays/101-the-mythology-of-selfishness
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"It’s a handy rule-of-thumb that the usefulness of any document is in direct proportion to the ease with which a parody may be distinguished from the real thing." #q Stefan Collini http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n02/stefan-collini/who-are-the-spongers-now
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"The problem … is that they all think money grows on rich people" #q Stephanie Kelton http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2015/08/13/money-does-not-grow-on-rich-people/ #economics #MMT
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"To be poor now means to be endlessly assessed, monitored, and surveyed, and almost invariably found wanting." #q David Graeber http://thebaffler.com/salvos/despair-fatigue-david-graeber
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"For the last 3 to 4 decades, the neo-liberals have been ‘cleaning up the mess’ that they inherited. The story should wear thin but it doesn’t." #q Bill Mitchell http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=32743
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"Guiding Bush […] through eight years of public appearances was surely the greatest coaching job in history. It was like teaching a donkey to play the Waldstein Sonata. It's breathtaking to think about now." #q Matt Taibbi http://ur1.ca/olm8y
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"Norway is such an open country where you can talk about everything, as long as you don’t call racists racists and as long as you’re critical of immigration. […] Sorry for being so mangoing PC but: FrankerZ Scandinavia." #q #brokep http://blog.brokep.com/2016/01/04/the-new-wall/
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"As long as we worship science and are afraid of #philosophy we shall have no great science; we shall have a lagging and halting continuation of what is thought and said elsewhere." #q John Dewey
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"[P]olitical economy is a mere skeleton unless it has a little human covering and filling out, a little human bloom upon it, and a little human warmth in it." #q Charles Dickens http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/charles-dickens-on-masters-and-hands.html
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"When [people] don’t get good educations, the production of knowledge falls into private control. Power gets consolidated. The official theoretical frameworks that benefit the most powerful get locked in." #q Orsola Costantini #INET http://ur1.ca/oiyo5
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#q Michael Caine: "I got a birthday card last year with a picture of me on it, saying 'You were only supposed to blow the bloody candles out'." http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06w44m9
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"#DrWho is a life choice, not a ‘favourite #TV show’" #q Paul Cornell http://www.paulcornell.com/2015/12/the-12-blogs-of-christmas-four-my-idea-of-fun/
