Quotes from David McNally

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you only do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.

A personal brand is a perception or emotion, maintained by somebody other than you, that describes your outstanding qualities and influences that person's relationship with

It is only in staring horrors in the face and insisting on their systemic, not accidental, character that theory sustains radical commitments.

The mistake-riddled life is much richer, more interesting and more stimulating than the life that has never risked or taken a stand on anything.