“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.” PeopleIfsRealOpportunityResultsMillionsTreeEconomicActivityRainDestructionPracticalsForestsAmazonDisorganized Author:Roberto Unger
“Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.” WellsHeartActionSpiritSocialEconomicPracticalsSocial ChangeReconciliationSymbolicChange Of HeartEconomic Change Author:Malcolm Fraser
“We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down” TodayLeftSocialEconomicBrokenCrisisProtectionPracticalsEfficiencyConsensusBroken DownEconomic Efficiency Author:Andre Glucksmann
“Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.” WorldYearsHumansDoeImportantReasonRealityPoliticalSoundProgressEconomicModernIndustryBalanceHumorousPrisonTrainDetailsAppreciationPracticalsFiftyWrestlingSanityHarshMachineryRevivalAutomobilePublic ServiceOpen MindednessCottagesColossalQuaintTelegraphHarsh Reality Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.” WarMovingPoliticalPartyStruggleEconomyEconomicPolicyBrokenNeededDemandLaborOvercomingIndependentUnionsPracticalsGiantsSophisticatedTacticsEconomic PowerSlumps Author:C. Wright Mills
“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
“Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.” NeedsBookStatesPhilosophyWholeUnitedResultsOpinionPracticeUnited StatesEconomicDangerMovedInvestingContraryPracticalsAgreementApplicationProgrammesLead InDisillusionEnlargementRoad To Serfdom Author:John Maynard Keynes
“The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.” WorldImportantBookWould BeUnderstandingPoorIssuesWiseWrittenEconomicSolutionsConcernedProsperityPracticalsClarityQuestsProposeBeing WisePlightEconomic IssuesDeep Understanding Author:Robert Fogel
“For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.” KnowsShouldHumansHas BeensIdeasPurposeThreeCoursesTechnologyEconomicAdvantageFaultsEnvironmentalAvailableDecadesPlanningPracticalsDevelopingAgendasSustainabilityTechnologicalFragmentsIntegratedForesight Author:David W. Orr
“As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.” NeedsMatterOpportunityEconomicMastersCitizensPracticalsImmigrantsParticipating Author:Richard Lugar
“This is a very practical discussion about the fact that one of the largest coal companies in the world, Adani, wants to build one of the, develop one of the largest coal mines in Australia in this region of Australia. And if they get the green light to do that, that will secure the economic future of people in Rockhampton, and people in central Queensland. It will secure their jobs in the future, and that's what they're concerned about.” PeopleIfsWorldWantFactsLightJobsCompanyEconomicMinesConcernedGreenPracticalsSecureDiscussionAustraliaRegionsCoalQueenslandGreen Lights Author:George Brandis