Die Zyniker, die über den Dingen schweben und von oben die Genuss-Gesellschaft verspotten, ergötzten sich an ihren Höhenflügen und gehen dabei der Genuss-Logik ebenso auf den Leim, wie die armen Teufel, die sie verspotten.

Die Aufgabe der Psychoanalyse bestand einst darin, den Menschen zu ermöglichen, ihr Begehren gegen eine repressive Gesellschaft zu verteidigen. Heute muss ihre Aufgabe darin bestehen, den Menschen gegen das Gebot, genießen zu müssen, zu verteidigen.

Aus den Boxen der Genuss-Gesellschaft schallen ihre Slogans: „Du darfst“, „Du willst es, du kriegst es!“, „Enjoy the real thing!“, „Du willst es doch auch“, „Have it your way“… #wirmüssennurwollen

Der Spätkapitalismus verspicht Genuss ohne Reue. Alkoholfreies Bier und zuckerfreie Schokolade suggerieren Genuss ohne Nebenwirkungen und Bio-Bananen lassen uns glauben, wir täten beim kau(f)en etwas für die Umwelt.

Das Versprechen völliger Befriedigung ist eine Illusion, die in dem großen Interesse der Genuss-Gesellschaft am Virtuellen, an Simulationen und Abbildungen aller Art, sichtbar wird. #facebooktinderinstagram

Die Maxime der Genuss-Gesellschaft ist die Unmittelbarkeit, die direkte Verfügbarkeit all dessen, was als Quelle des Genusses dienen könnte. Dementsprechend bekämpft die zeitgenössische Philosophie auch die Metaphysik und begeistert sich für alles Greifbare. #newmaterialism

Die Genuss-Gesellschaft hat die Arbeit abgeschafft: Hackordnungen werden durch flache Hierarchien ersetzt, Arbeitsplätze werden zu Wohlfühloasen und Vorgesetzte zu Kollegen. #MachdeinHobbyzumBeruf

Je mehr man genießen muss, desto weniger kann man genießen. Angesichts grenzenloser Optionen lauert hinter jeder Wahl eine Fehlentscheidung; das Ergebnis ist zwangsläufig Unzufriedenheit.

Schlimm ist, nicht genießen zu können; noch schlimmer ist, wenn der Nachbar es kann. Der Genuss des Anderen wird verdächtig und als Bedrohung wahrgenommen. Daraus resultieren, Neid, Apathie und offene Gewalt.

Die Vorstellung völliger Befriedigung ist eine Illusion. Nur wer akzeptiert, dass jeder Genuss sein Ende hat, und sich die Mängel, die er wie alle anderen leidet, eingesteht, kommt in der Realität an und wird genuss- und empathiefähig.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

The fabulous places Ive been wonderful things thatve happened great people Ive met ought to make a story.

To prevent a crippling attack on our nation's critical networks, U.S. companies and the federal government must work together to combat those who wish to do us harm.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

Islam is a dangerous religion.

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

When life partner happens, I hope he is not a youth icon then because I doubt even I would be youthful then. Whether life partner is hot or not, that doesn't matter. He has to be a nice man. He should be funny, responsible, and he should be sweet, and he should love me a lot.

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.