Home / Quotes / Quote by Glenn Loury

Quote by Glenn Loury

“My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little I know about the history of drug control policy in the United States leaves me thinking that a hugely important moment came when the lawyers win out over the doctors on this matter.”

Quote by Glenn Loury

Author

Glenn Loury is an American economist renowned for his research on issues of race, poverty, and inequality. He has had a broad impact in the field of economics, particularly on the relationship between race and economic development. more

You May Also Like

“We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.”

People Real Problem Building Prove Solutions Prison Addiction Alcohol Drunkenness

Author:Glenn Loury

“The fact that we don't' talk about it, that we don't have a politics in which this question of war and peace can even get onto the table, so that we can open up our Orwell, our 1984, or Animal Farm, or whatever, and read the political text that's being spotted to us on the television right off of the page; the fact that we don't have a politics robust enough to actually debate whether or not we want to be a country permanently at war. That's what keeps me from sleeping at night.”

War Country Enough Political Night Sleep Animal Debate

Author:Glenn Loury

“I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing to come out in my old age.”

Sometimes Age Okay Old Age

Author:Glenn Loury

“Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.”

Made Literature Century Brilliant Comic Novelists Twentieth Century Sparkle English Literature Trios

Author:Russell Baker

“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

World Needs Mind Heart Kind Soul Nations Creativity Creative Extremism Extremist Religious Extremism Civil Right Movement Political Extremism Islamic Extremists

Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“America is the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. Or where people are blocked in access to the system because they don't have access to insurance, which is only available through certain narrow portals and under certain very restricted conditions. We're the only society that hasn't embraced this idea that no one should go without access to these services, regardless of their financial condition. And no one should be saddled with a lifetime of debt because they have the misfortune of falling ill.”

People Care Fall Democracy Sick Lifetime Financial Ill Misfortunes Blocked Portal

Author:Glenn Loury

“If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for by raising your taxes and providing the requirements on individuals where they have the ability to pay, such as we determine as appropriate, then the insurance issue doesn't come up.”

Individual Ability Taxes Determine Healthcare

Author:Glenn Loury

“I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have that obsession, what is your subject going to be and you often don't know for some time. It might become fiction, it might be non-fiction, and if it's non-fiction it can go in any number of directions.”

Thinking Long Jazz Obsession

Author:Gary Giddins

“You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read at a certain point. So, primarily for most of my career, I've written the kind of criticism that fascinates me. The things I discovered the things that get me going, that I'm excited about.”

Writing Kind Criticism Excited

Author:Gary Giddins

“Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style that I recognize in my early work, but that doesn't mean I didn't have to learn certain basics and the longer you write the better you get. The rhythms come from you. If the rhythm seem to echo the music, then that's delightful if people see that, but it's certainly not something that's intentional on my part. I'm trying to be as clear and precise as I can be and at the same time, I'm trying to be eloquent and witty and entertaining. I mean, writing should be a pleasure.”

People Thinking Writing Trying Mean Pleasure Style Consequence Who You Are Witty Rhythm Eloquent Writing Style

Author:Gary Giddins