quotes about Fray

“If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.”

“You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.”

“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”

Source : Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.”

“Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by our own ideas? I doubt if there exists today a more complete regimentation of the human mind than that accomplished by our self-imposed doctrine of ruthless utilitarianism.”

“All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.”

“The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.”

Source : Hal Rothman (2007). “Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West”, p.135, UNM Press

“I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.”

“Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.”

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”