Best Surplus Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.”

Way Giving Country Problem President Economic Findings Permanent Soviet Scarcity Deprivation Surplus American President

Author:Elie Abel

“Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.”

University Finance Tricky Surplus Nonprofits

Author:Rick Levin

“Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.”

Source: Morning and Evening

“The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.”

Philosophy Shapes Tradition Consumerism Overconsumption Surplus

Author:Walter Weyl

“American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.”

“I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.”

Government New York Taxes Size Billions Deficit Surplus Size Of Government

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.”

Ifs Needs Should May Pay Taxation Surplus

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.”

Country Today Movement Balance Sixty Reserves Deficit Payment Surplus

Author:Robert C. Solomon

“If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Humanity Poor Rich Misery Needy Surplus

Author:Saint Basil

“Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.”

“I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.”

Years Has Beens Book Fine Drawing Surplus Observance

Book:A Roving Commission

Source: A Roving Commission

“The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.”

Ends Values Amount Labor Aim Productions Motive Capitalist Exploits Surplus

Book:Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy

Source: Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy

“I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.”

Realization Deficit Starks Surplus

Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

“Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.”

War Peace Conditions Dues Remedy Civilians Surplus Morbid

Book:The Condemned Playground

Source: The Condemned Playground

“Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.”

Long Used Energy Space Cost Function Distance Heavy Conversion Sufficient Load Idle Indispensable Time And Space Margins Transport Circuits Batteries Surplus Storage Heavy Loads

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.”

Winning Space Crazy Prison Alternatives Bother Formulas Surplus Can't Win Predictability

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.”

Way I Can Real Country Interest Deals Class Objects Benefits Spring Advantage Presses Burden Secure Consumers Injury Canada Commerce Manufacturing Surplus

Author:Robert Peel

“The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.”

Crime Strategy Population Capitalist Tied Breaking Down Surplus Incarceration Binge

Author:Jerry Brown

“By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.”

Humans Littles Energy Human Beings Leader Worship Hatred Doctrine Concrete Preaching Steel Outlets Surplus

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946

“Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.”

Individual Realizing Transformation Conservative Disaster Capitalist Surplus Indictment

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.”

Government Faces Intervention Surplus Government Intervention

Author:Benjamin Graham

“It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.”

Facts Today Lying Evil Four Century Abundance Thrown Pondering Surplus

Author:Benjamin Graham

“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.”

Humans Able Wealth Simple Study Groups Influence Huge Amount Activity Concerned Labor Direct Enormous Income Command Civilized Peasants Priesthood Surplus Periodicity

Author:Carroll Quigley

“With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.”

Government Inequality Socialist Surplus Socialist Government

Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.”

People Needs Form Economic Involved Code Phenomenon Surplus

Author:Erik Naggum

“They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.”

Want Two Reason Problem Fighting Social Security Blame Spending Social Security Caps Surplus

Author:Robert Reischauer

“At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.”

Moments Government Happens Areas Trade Patterns Various Balanced Globes Deficit Surplus

Book:Contributions to Modern Economics

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.”

Facts Numbers Creative Expression Essence Bases Innovation Infinite Productive Cooperation Richness Surplus Singularity Articulation

Book:Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State

Source: Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State

“Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?”

Way Giving Mean Ideas Reason Use Levels Gone Achieve Weapons Capitalism Paid Productions Labour Implications Surplus

Author:David Harvey

“The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies.”

May Country Able Achieve Increase Investment Profit Manage Expenses Capture Capitalist Other Countries Dependency Surplus Metropolis

Book:Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970

Source: Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970

“We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.”

Want Giving Firsts Kind Home Christ Changed Hats Over You Thread Plates First Love Surplus Leftovers

Author:Ann Voskamp

“The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.”

Government Budgets Bottles Federal Government Alcoholics Whiskey Surplus Cupboards

Author:Ron Paul

“You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.”

Economy Position Versus Shortage Surplus

Author:Kenneth Lay

“The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha, and in the Church. Indeed, the excess in Utah has usually been larger than for the whole United State... there was no surplus of women.”

States Whole Shows Church United United States Records Males Available Excess Polygamy Surplus Utah Census

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.”

Mean Creativity Cases Surplus

Author:Joe Carnahan

“He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.”

World Said Jobs Sells Boards Surplus Electronics

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.”

Ideas Real Culture Literature Energy Wealth Creation Painting Flower Architecture Dust Atmosphere Engaged Leisure Bees Floats Ants Colony Surplus Incessantly Great Literature Parthenon

Author:Edith Wharton

“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.”

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