Whether consciously or not, the physician and patient are enacting a ritual of domination and submission, much like the kowtowing required in the presence of a Chinese emperor.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Quotes
#121 – Strauss on PHDs
no matter what your point of view may be, you can always find someone with a Ph.D to support it.
Neil Strauss
#120 – Lupton on Charity
Giving to those in need what they could be gaining from their own initiative may well be the kindest way to destroy people.
Robert Lupton
#119 – Bastiat on Education
All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.
F. Bastiat
#118 – DEBS on WORK AND MONEY
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
Eugene Debs
#117 – Hatmaker on Excess
Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.
Jen Hatmaker
#116 – ANON on WRONG
There is no right way to do something wrong.
Anonymous…
#115 – Box on Talking
In Joe’s experience, the person who talked the most very often had the least to say.
CJ Box
#114 – Karlgaard on Patience
They are not attempting to satisfy, with gritted teeth, the expectations of their parents or society, a false path that leads to burnout and brittleness, or even to depression and illness… Late bloomers are those who find their supreme destiny on their own schedule, in their own way.
Rich Karlgaard
#113 – ISTVAN on Society
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It’s unequivocally absurd.
Zoltan Istvan
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