“Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.” KindTermDifferencesEconomicDegreesChiefsDistinction Book:Principles of Economics Source: Principles of Economics
“England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.” GivingIdeasGovernmentPurposeStrongSocialPrinciplesEconomicProductsTaxesDegreesStandardsLaborWeakEnglandConsumersCommunistSocialistTaxpayersIndustriousBasic PrinciplesCannibalismFrugal Author:Dan Smoot
“Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.” MindHas BeensArtIdeasAgeSpiritualValuesEconomicActivityDegreesTradeProductionsIntenseRemarkableExceptionRegionsManifestSpiritual ValuesLocality Author:Paul Valery
“Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.” MenShouldSocialSexLinesPayEconomicPositionDegreesResponsibleSellsFavorsTreatedInevitableMeritOne ManProstitutionInferiority Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.” PeopleMindLooksStatesBodyGovernmentAmericaFormDifferencesDemocracyIssuesEconomicHealthyDegreesSolutionsEconomicsDollarsDeterminedRussiaCommunistTotalitarianismForms Of GovernmentSettlementHealthy And Happy Book:Another Roadside Attraction Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.” IfsDoeMightHappensPoliticalToo MuchEconomicDegreesOppositesPatternsOneselfResistanceDependentDaily LifeCollectivism Author:Paul Tillich
“College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.” Has BeensEndsHelpingJobsGrowthFeetEconomicStudentsCollegeDegreesInnovationBillsGraduatesTaxpayersDroppingEconomic GrowthSubsidiesDropping Out Author:Alex Tabarrok
“In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.” ShouldMeanGovernmentCertainSocialEconomicDegreesConservativeFavorsLiberalismEmphasisMixturesConservatismBeneficialEstimationDescribe MyselfSmall Government Author:John Howard
“Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.” MenYearsHumansLooksProblemYoungMotherEconomicNew YorkDegreesLaysLawyerChosenContactAnalysisYoung ManUnlikelyInstituteAnalystsDrudgeryBest YearViennaPsychoanalytic Author:Paul Goodman
“Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.” ThinkingWellsImportantProblemGrowthAbilityCommonNumbersEconomicStudentsCollegeSkillsDegreesCriticalCommon SenseProblem SolvingEconomistEconomic GrowthCritical ThinkingCognitiveCollege Degree Author:Derek Bok
“American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.” GovernmentSocialRolesEconomicConditionsDegreesOppositesInequalityCompareArrangementsPublic LifeAmerican LifeSmall Roles Author:Tony Judt