“There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.” PeopleWellsLooksMayTwoTodayCertainLevelsEconomicBuildingStandardsEconomicsOppressionClimbsConformityMediocrityQuarrelsMoldCeilingsStandards Of Living Author:Ronald Reagan
“The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.” FirstsWisdomPoliticsPrinciplesEconomyEconomicProduceBuildingLiberalismSymmetryEconomic Power Author:Louis O. Kelso
“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.” DifferentReasonLyingCitiesBehindsEconomicFashionPossibilityBuildingOne TimeConstructionTechnologicalDwelling Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.” PeopleIfsNeedsUseKidsUsedDecisionEconomicCarBuildingAmountBehaviorGasVehicleIrresponsibleHybridGasolineSuvsHorsepower Author:William J. Clinton
“The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were they ever, the self-sufficient building blocks of society, exclusively responsible, praiseworthy, and blamable for their own destiny. They are deeply influenced by broad social and economic forces over which they have little control.” LittlesSelfForceSocialCommunityDestinyEconomicBuildingResponsibleMythBlockSufficientBroadsFamily LifeSelf SufficiencySufficiencySelf SufficientBuilding BlocksPraiseworthy Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.” WholeProblemPoliticalSocialPovertyIssuesEnvironmentEconomicSecurityBuildingKeysDevelopmentClimateEnvironmentalBlockAddressesStabilitySustainabilitySocial SecuritySustainable DevelopmentBuilding BlocksPeace And Security Author:Ban Ki-moon
“Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.” JusticeGrowingRightsEconomicBuildingGayModelsStrategySignificantFrameworkDisagreementFormationTransGay RightsEconomic Justice Author:Dean Spade
“[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.” WayEconomicBuildingStructurePlanningHungryRegulationInterventionTotalitarianismPower Hungry Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.” UseNationsSocialChallengesPovertyEconomicConditionsCenturyBuildingStandardsOilDevelopingConspiracySaddamServitudeBuilding Up Author:Saddam Hussein
“If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.” IfsThinkingYearsLongHas BeensStatesLastsFacesTermChallengesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyEconomicBuildingParticularApproachEuropeHistoricalAidsDevelopingLong TermAgricultureProximityLong Term RelationshipHistorical Context Author:Dambisa Moyo