I Quotes
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“If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.”
Source: The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
“If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.”
Source: And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime
“If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”
Source: Essays in persuasion
“If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.”
“If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.”
Source: The Unconscious Civilization
“If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.”
“If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"”
“If economy were good, there'd be no immigration problem.”
“If Ed could pretend to be a ghost, he could act his way into being a bookseller. How hard could it be?”
Source: Bookishly Ever After
“If Eddie had been Riley’s friend, he wasn’t that for Andrew. That friendship was a muted fraction of the real thing, the marrow-thing, that tied them together. Through the cavern and their hauntings since, through a life spent with Eddie keeping him leashed but cared for at the same time, he couldn’t find a label that fit where he needed it to go. Maybe instead, just a hard stop: he was yours.”
Source: Summer Sons
“If Eddie had ever seen a more beautiful woman, he couldn't remember it.”
Source: Nobody Move
“If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap”
“If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.”
“If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen.”
“If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.”
“If education doesn’t make us humble, then something is very wrong with our system.”
“if education doesn't solve a problem, then it is a problem; If the educated do not solve problems, then they are the problems.”
“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.”
“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?”
“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”
Source: Image and Imagination
“If education is not being able to make you better, you are illiterate.”
“If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.”
Source: On Education
“If education is truly the key. Then let's all of us become socialists and struggle to make it free to all, instead of making it expensive daily.”
“If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.”
Source: Peaceful Children, Peaceful World: The Challenge of Maria Montessori
“If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.”
“If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.”
Source: The Education Decree
“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.”
“If efficient technical means for achieving something exist or can be produced, then these means must be put into action irrespective of what this thing is or of what the cost may be in human terms. Even those who were at first the victims of these processes—the industrial proletariat—have been seduced by their glamour and regard them as the magical talisman that will bring them all they need in life. As for the elite of our technocracy—those who manipulate its inexhaustible gadgetry of machines, devices, techniques, the computers and cybernated systems, the simulation and gaming processes, the market and motivational research, the immense codifications necessary to sustain and enlarge their empire of sterilized artificiality—their prestige is virtually unassailable because on them the whole edifice depends for its survival and prosperity. Moreover, if they are readers of Teilhard de Chardin, they can add ideological grist to their pragmatic mill, for he will have taught them that it is through the consolidation of the ‘noosphere’, that level of existence permanently dominated by the mind of man and its planning, that our species will execute its God-given task and fulfill its destiny.”
Source: The Rape of Man & Nature: An Inquiry Into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science
“If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.”
“If ego can consume you to the point of disregard for humanity
Then my dear you have lost yourself”
“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.”
Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine
“If Egyptian men harass Egyptian women in the streets of Cairo and then come to Germany and do the same thing to German women in the streets of Cologne, it is not because they feel inferior or oppressed; it is because they think they can get away with it, just as they did back home.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“If Egyptian pyramids were in India, they would become temples and mummies would be prayed as God's”
“If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?”
“If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.”
“If either one or two candidates is dominating the field at the time of the first primaries and caucuses, the voters are superfluous because the victor is already guaranteed. If, however, no candidate is dominant, then the primaries and caucuses will determine the winner. Nonetheless, in recent campaign cycles, that determination has been made earlier and earlier in the process, by fewer and fewer voters, who pick from only a few candidates - the ones who have not already eliminated themselves from serious contention by their weak performances in the pre-primary phase.”
Source: Claiming the Mantle: How Presidential Nominations Are Won and Lost Before the Votes Are Cast
“If either person isn't 100% committed to scale every mountain that comes before you to make your relationship work then you aren't ready to enter into it. That's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high. People are entering into the commitment they're making without having the strength of character, fortitude, and resolve to keep the promises they're making to each other and also to God. God cares VERY MUCH that we keep our marital promises -He enters into the marriage with you whenever you marry so your promises aren't only to each other but also to Him.”
“If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.”
“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”
“If Elain's mental gates were those of a sleeping garden, Nesta's... They belonged to an ancient fortress, sharp and brutal. The sort I imagined they only impaled people upon.
But they were open wide. And inside...
Dark.
Dark like I have never known, even with Rhysand.
Nesta.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“If elders could bequeath their experience and knowledge of life to children without the children making any mistakes, they would save them from a lifetime of heartaches.”
Source: Tied to Deceit
“If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.”
Source: Lincoln on Lincoln
“If elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the nominee will say, we are going to overturn this disastrous decision on Citizens United because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be allowed to buy politicians.”
“If elected, Hillary Clinton could be impeached based on what we already know, and there's plenty more yet to be discovered. Emails and other documents that could be used in impeachment proceedings are waiting to be found like Easter eggs laid out for 3-year-olds.”
“If elected, Hillary Clinton will be the least popular president to be elected in modern history. So there's going to be very little incentive on the part of Republicans to work with her.”
“If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.”
Source: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914
“If elected, I will win.”
“If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.”
“If elephants could talk,
they would narrate tales of
pain
suffering
and bondage.
If they could speak,
they would ask for freedom from
hunger
isolation
and loneliness.
Yes, if they could,
they would ask to return to
their homes
their families
the wilderness
away from humans and their chaos.
But they can't.
So I must.”
Source: If Elephants Could Talk