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“In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.”

“No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels.”

Stills Matter Might Energy Economy Depends Alternatives Fuel Sophisticated Equipment Fossils Fossil Fuel

Author:George W. Bush

“Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.”

Persons Important Principles Economy Depends Labour Division

Author:Charles Babbage

“The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.”

Has Beens Political Opinion Economy Source Depends Demand Errors Proportion Commodity Axioms Political Economy Supply And Demand

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?”

“It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.”

People Ifs Done Wisdom Politics Causes Economy Democracy Depends Kings Authority Vices Kingdoms Liberalism Rome Consent Vice Versa Aristocracy Magistrates People Can Change

Author:Robert Bellarmine

“The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted by thousands and the last by millions, is neither fit for, nor capable of, indefinite duration: and the possibility of changing this system for one of combination without dependence, and unity of interest instead of organized hostility, depends altogether upon the future developments of the Partnership principle.”

Source: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy

“The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.”

Men Wisdom Politics Nations Principles Economy Conditions Depends Becoming Equal Prosperity Our Time Liberalism Servitude Barbarism Wretchedness

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.”

Littles Use Energy Economy Groups Modern Products Depends Appreciation Fuel Display Fossils Fossil Fuel Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:Robert Higgs

“Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.”

Humans States Brain Economy Influence Depends Human Experience Human Brain Global Economy Genome

Author:Sam Harris

“Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.”

Order Economy Depends Architecture Arrangements Symmetry Propriety

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.”

Ifs Looks Lines Economy Successful Depends Scales Straight Lines

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough”

Way Enough Natural Economy Too Much Depends Resources Russia Natural Resources Russian Economy

Author:Kenneth Rogoff