“Society is a revolving body which is apt to be judged according to its place in each man's heaven; and at present it was turning its illuminated face to Lily.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“Consider how the minimum wage impacts workers with different educations. Over the past 30 years (on average) each ten-percentage point increase in the federal minimum wage as a fraction of the average U.S. wage rate has been associated with no increase in unemployment among workers with college degrees, a one and a half percentage point increase in unemployment among workers with high school diplomas, and a three and a half percentage point increase in unemployment among workers without high school diplomas. Politicians are picking winners and losers, but they are lying about whom they’ve picked.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“Finally, the money to pay for an increased minimum wage must come from somewhere, and there are only four places from which it can come: other minimum wage workers, in the form of layoffs and reduced hours; higher wage workers, in the form of static or reduced compensation; investors, in the form of lower profits; or customers, in the form of higher prices. How much each of the groups pays for the minimum wage hike depends on how competitive the various marketplaces are.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“There is chaos all around and you are looking for oneness and unity. Most of you're sticking with a unit called body which hardly lasts 100 years, or to units such as family, cast, religion, country or humanity. Humanity is the largest of them which lasts a few thousand years. That is nothing compared to the eternal oneness, the unit that lasts forever. Find that!”
“There are four things that an aristocrat should contribute to the modern world to countervail its ideological tendencies: the rejection of historical inevitability; the defense of the ethics of obligations; an acceptance of the body/soul dualism with the soul taking the dominant position; and a classical concept of shame. All of them are interrelated.”
Source: The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols
“Women in leadership are often questioned based on their gender, rather than the performance against the set agenda. That kind of mentality needs to shift in society. Women should be empowered to lead without the fear of being treated differently.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A powerful woman may not carry a powerful position in society, but she is what society needs; because her contribution does not depend on her position but her sincere passion for humanity.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Not every powerful woman occupies a high position. She may be in the lowest of positions, but she can rightfully position herself in society.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Di solito, più si sente la necessità di parlare degli ideali della democrazia, meno democratico è il sistema.”
Source: Dis-educazione
“Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World