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“So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.”

Path Gun Economics Destruction Universal Metaphor Related Belts Slogans Stoic Austerity

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.”

May Land Economics Universal Curiosity Ethical Mechanism Conservation

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.”

Thinking Roles Majors Economics Universal Profession Agreement Quantity Decline Great Depression

Author:Milton Friedman

“Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to very general and universal categories and formal structures. But thought is something other than societal relations.”

Thinking Men Way Economics Universal Relation Structure Related Categories Formal

Author:Michel Foucault

“As Muslims, we are all equals, we abide by the laws and we understand that we have to be active citizens wherever we are. Our goals are first to live by our principles, to remind people of these values, to reconcile our respective societies with these shared universal values and to try our best to push for a spiritual agenda with more ethics in society, in politics, in economics, and in culture.”

People Trying Firsts Spiritual Law Values Culture Goal Principles Citizens Ethics Economics Universal Active Agendas Live By Reconcile

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.”

Men Humans Self Facts Would Be Used Interest Liberty Doubt Economic Human Nature Judgment Understood Economics Universal Selfishness Self Interest Adverse Nature Of Man

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.”

World Political Causes Liberty Economics Universal Trade Unions Libertarian Barriers Libertarianism Restriction Removal

Book:The Rise & Fall of Society

Source: The Rise & Fall of Society

“Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.”

Philosophy Political Accepting Economics Universal Unions Workers Finished Representatives

Author:Jacques Delors

“Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.”

Philosophy Might Political Rights Economics Universal Locals Enforcement

Author:Murray Rothbard

“The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.”

Littles Soul Matter Care Issues Percent Economics Universal Health Care Coverage Gdp

Author:Uwe Reinhardt