“I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!” PeopleWellsStillsReasonDoneStoriesJobsAmericaReligiousEconomicGenderGoldenParisImmigrantsGood JobFleece Author:Jacques Pepin
“The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.” Has BeensDoneWomenRaceEconomicInjusticeInjuryWomens RightsDependenceMen Women Book:In Times Like These Source: In Times Like These
“Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.” DoneEconomicDeserveTemporaryEngineeringRecessionsDislocation Author:Walt Disney
“They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.” DoneSpiritualPoliticalSocialWomenEconomicEnlightenmentRepressionIdeological Author:Frederick Lenz
“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.” IfsWantFirstsHumansHas BeensWarRealDoneFeelingsPoliticalDesireTurnsNationsCausesOpinionEconomicPrejudiceConvictionObstaclesPsychologicalRulersHuman Will Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals
“One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.” PeopleWorldMayDoneLyingOpportunityPeaceEconomicDangerPressurePracticalsArrangementsPractical Things Author:Calvin Coolidge
“This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.” DoneWholeIndividualEconomicAuthorityPlanningDividedDisputesEconomic Systems Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.” MenFirstsTwoDonePhilosophyAgeChristianPoliticsSocialFeltGrowthWealthViewsEconomyEconomicMiddleActivityEternalStandardsConnectionsFunctionIndependencePropertyProductionsWideChristian LifeLiberalismDistributionMiddle AgesPreventionProletariat Author:Hilaire Belloc
“There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.” MayImportantDoneProblemEconomicFieldsSeriousHarmInstanceEmploymentSuperstitionsInflationMagnitude Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.” PersonsDoneWould BeKidsOpportunityDecisionEconomicDetermineAcceptedGet UpReasonableDecision MakingEvery Second Author:Daniel Suarez
“German businesspeople have invested a great deal in our country, and trade is flourishing. We want to speed up economic cooperation. Your country is a large, important provider of aid, and it has done a great deal to reduce the poverty of many Vietnamese.” WantImportantCountryDoneDealsPovertyEconomicTradeSpeedAidsOur CountryCooperationFlourishingProvidersVietnameseEconomic Cooperation Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look for a scapegoat. Depending on where you live in this country, the scapegoats are either, frankly, Mexicans or Muslims. So, you know, God save you if you happened to be a Mexican Muslim in America right now.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLooksCountryDoneAmericaNaturalHappenedEconomicRight NowDistressMexicanKnowing GodScapegoatWhere You Live Author:Reza Aslan
“I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running the Olympics that you can get money there to help build economic opportunities. We actually got over $410 million from the federal government; that is a huge increase over anything ever done before. We did that by going after every agency of government. That kind of creativity I want to bring to everything we do (in Massachusetts).” WantKindDoneHelpingBigsGovernmentRunningOpportunityCreativityMillionsEconomicHugeIncreaseBelieverAgencyOlympicsFederal GovernmentGet MoneyMassachusetts Author:Mitt Romney
“Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.” HumansDoneRealityValuesCultureNationsWealthPrinciplesPovertyVirtueEconomicDignityDistancePursuitDefinedRecognitionRevolutionaryJustificationTolerateCommerceEntitledEmbeddedHuman DignityEconomic SystemsIndivisibleWealth And Poverty Author:William Greider
“I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.” WritingBookDoneBigsWantedAmericaCitiesEconomicCenturyMajorsAmbitious21st CenturyEmbodiment Author:James Frey
“Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.” WayDoeStillsCountryDoneHandsSocialGrowthJusticePovertyDemocracyGreaterEconomicPolicyReturnModelsSocial JusticeExtremesEquityEconomic GrowthHand In HandChileExtreme PovertyEconomic Models Author:Michelle Bachelet
“Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.” DoneValuesGrowthEconomicIdealsUnionsDemocraticSpreadStabilityOur RelationshipContinentsEconomic GrowthEuropean UnionDemocratic Values Author:Barack Obama
“I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsShouldMeanBookDoneShowsViolenceEconomicCategoriesBlueprintsReproductive HealthEconomic Equality Author:Eleanor Smeal
“I think it's very important to remember that so much of the work that gets done between countries is not done at the level of presidents, but is done within various agencies, whether it's law enforcement or economic ministries. And when they establish relationships and systems of communications and shared projects and shared visions, those structures continue even after any particular president is gone. It builds trust and understanding between countries that are critically important.” ThinkingImportantCountryDoneRememberLawUnderstandingPresidentLevelsVisionGoneEconomicParticularCommunicationProjectsStructureVariousAgencyMinistryLaw EnforcementEnforcementShared Vision Author:Barack Obama