“In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.” MenWellsHas BeensWholePoliticalSocialPartyCuttingEconomicFiguresRevolutionPeriodsDestructionOur TimeSuspectsCivilizedSpheresPreservationPatheticRestorationUltras Book:Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New
“Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?” PastHeardEconomicFiguresCrisisRecent Past Author:Newt Gingrich
“The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.” IfsWorldNaturalEconomicFiguresModelsBuiltLaborTransformationEnvironmentalAssumptionSustainabilityNatural WorldLinearEconomic Systems Author:Winona LaDuke
“Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.” LooksLittlesFactsEconomicFiguresDevelopmentSlaveryWestEconomic Success Author:Ibn Warraq
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.” HumansWholeBornFateEconomicFiguresProduceCivilizationCreaturesFemaleMalesDeterminePsychologicalFeminineEunuchs Book:The Second Sex Source: The Second Sex
“The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsSpeakSocialResultsEconomyEconomicFiguresTruth IsMassStandardsCapitalismHistoricalPopulationBeneficialUnprecedentedStandards Of LivingEpitaphMarket EconomySocial SystemsPropagandistWrens Author:Ludwig von Mises
“The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.” FirstsDoeWarGovernmentFacesForceGrowthProgressEconomicConditionsSecurityFiguresDevelopmentIntegrityConflictIncrediblesIraqZoneMeaninglessEngineersTransparencyIncompetenceExaggeratedInsurgencyDeterioratingKurdishUsaid Author:Anthony H. Cordesman
“I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.” ThinkingTryingChildrenHardViewsEnvironmentEconomicFiguresProtectProjectsMy ChildrenThings To DoBroadsHard ThingsProtect The Environment Author:Christy Clark
“I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously, we have got to figure out how we're going to provide more economic opportunity - good jobs with rising incomes - and I'm excited to work with Senator Sanders in doing that.” ThinkingShouldJobsOpportunityEconomicFiguresStressExcitedIncomeInequalityRisingSenatorsGood JobIncome Inequality Author:Hillary Clinton