1. My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing . . . to watch over . . . Institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing and clothing can wear out or become ragged . . . To be loyal to rags, that is the loyalty of un-reason. It is pure animal. The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet, holds his peace, and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway. Mark Twain
2. There is a political feudalism where a dynasty has the
trappings of a parliamentary system but manipulates it for the benefit of the
ruling class . . . Revolution in the twentieth century means rebellion against
another kind of feudalism . . . economic feudalism. . . and the United States
should promote democratic revolution against these conditions of economic feudalism.
William Douglas
Supreme Court Justice
3. The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists. Helen Keller, 1916
4. I can hire one half of the working class to kill
the other half.
Jay Gould, robber baron,
19th Century
5. The price of the liberation of the white people
is the liberation of the blacks-the total liberation, in the cities, in the
towns, before the law and in the mind.
James Baldwin, 1963
6. The poverty of the country is such that all the
power and sway has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages,
having the common people in their debt, have always curbed and oppressed them
in all manner of ways. Nathaniel Bacon
Rebel leader 1776
7. Private Property. . . is a Creature of Society, and is
subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require
it even to its last Farthing.
Benjamin Franklin, 1783
8. God forbid we should ever be twenty years without. . . a rebellion. Thomas Jefferson, 1787
9. War is a racket. Smedley Butler, Commanding General U.S. Marine Corps, 1934
10. I was a gangster for Wall Street: I helped make Mexico
and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914; I helped make
Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue
in; I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Bros.
in 1909-12; I bought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests
in 1916; and I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in
1903.
Smedly Butler (see above)
THE FOLLOWING COME FROM BYRNS AND STONE TEXT 3RD EDITION
11. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but
not more so.
Albert Einstein, p.5
12. It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven The Gospel of Matthew, p.736
13. Power corrupts, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely.
Lord Acton, p. 734
14. The conditions under which men produce and exchange vary
from country to country, and within each country again from generation to generation.
Political economy, therefore, cannot be the same for all countries and all historical
epoches. Friedrich Engels, p. 742
FROM THESIS
15. ". . . the realm of freedom actually begins only
where labor which is determined by necessity and mundane conditions ceases;
thus in the very nature of things it lies beyond the sphere of actual material
production. Just as the savage must wrestle with Nature to satisfy his wants,
to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilized man, and he must do so in
all social formations and under all possible modes of production. With his development
this realm of physical necessity expands as a result of his wants; but,
at the same time, the forces of production which satisfy these wants also increase.
Freedom in this field can only consist in socialized man, the associated producers,
rationally regulating their interchange with Nature, bringing it under their
common control, instead of being ruled by it as by the blind forces of Nature;
and achieving this with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions
most favourable to, and worthy of, their human nature. But it nonetheless still
remains a realm of necessity. Beyond it begins that development of human energy
which is an end in itself, the true realm of freedom, which, however, can blossom
forth only with this realm of necessity as its basis". Karl Marx,Capital, volume
3, pg. 820.
16. "There were several schools of
thought among economists, but by the 1920's the material welfare approach was
followed by prominent academics constituting the mainstream of English economics.
. . The material welfare school made a distinction among the types of
satisfactions that could be derived from goods. Indeed, goods, the motives for
acquiring them and the satisfaction yielded by their consumption were arranged
in a hierarchy that proceeded from the
'purely economic' or
'material' at one end to the purely noneconomic or nonmaterial at the other.
It was stressed that there was no hard-and-fast line separating the economic
part of the scale from the noneconomic, although the extremes were clearly distinguishable.
The material end of the hierarchy was concerned with survival and health. The
goods that fell most securely within the purview of material welfare economics
were 'clothing, house-room and firing', followed by rest. These were dubbed
necessaries by Marshall. As one proceeded further along the hierarchy, one came
to 'comforts' and luxuries', whose material content was less certain. (Marshall,
1920 [1890], pg.6)" .
For a more complete analysis of this school see Robert Cooter's
and Peter Rappoport's article; Were the Ordinalists Wrong About Welfare
Economics, pg. 507-530, J.E.L., June 1984.
17. "The economic welfare of a community
of given size is likely to be greater the larger is the share that accrues to
the poor".
A.C. Pigou, as quoted in Robert Lekachman's, A History of Economic Ideas,
18. "There is no way of comparing the
satisfactions of different people".
Lionel Robbins, ibid, pg. 384.
19. Bertrand Russell's encapsulation
of the utilitarians' concerns:
". . .for Bentham what men try to do is to attain the greatest possible happiness
for themselves. Happiness is here taken to mean the same as pleasure. The function
of the law is to ensure that, in seeking his own maximum pleasure, nobody should
impair this same pursuit for others. In this way is achieved the greatest happiness
of the greatest number. . . utilitarianism has certainly achieved more than
all the idealist philosophies put together. . . Two great conclusions follow
from the utilitarian ethic. First it seems clear that in some respects all men
have equally strong urges towards happiness. Therefore they should all enjoy
equal rights and opportunities. This view was somewhat of a novelty at the time,
and constituted one of the central tenets of the reforming programme of the
radicals.
The other inference that suggests itself is that the greatest happiness can
only be attained if conditions remain stable. Thus, equality and security are
overriding considerations. . . Mill's [J.S. Mill's] account of the utilitarian
ethic is contained in an essay entitled Utilitarianism (1863). . . Mill is in
the end prepared to regard certain pleasures as higher than others"
Bertrand Russel, The Wisdom of the West, pg. 265-6, 1959.
20. "Political economy, considered as a branch of the science
of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide
a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or more properly to enable
them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly,
to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public
services".
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, pg. 449, University of Chicago Press, 1976
21. "The first and chief of our needs
is the provision of food for existence and life. The second is housing and the
third is raiment and that sort of thing".
Plato, quoted in N. Georgescu-Roegen, "Choice, Expectation, and Measurability",
Q.J.E. 11/54, pg 513.
22. "The most important part of the quality of life
is the quality of work, and the new need for job satisfaction is the key to
the quality of work"(Richard Nixon(?!), "Presidential Labor Day Address", 9/6/71).
23. An extreme example is the findings of M. Harvey Brenner of Johns Hopkins University that a one percent increase in the unemployment rate in the U.S. results in 37,000 additional deaths (The Bureau of National Affairs, INc., "Current Developments", 7/24/1980, pg. A-7).
24. Adam Smith: "The man whose life spent performing a few
simple operations. . . has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise
his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never
occur. . . all the nobler parts of human character may be, in a great measure,
obliterated and extinguished in the great body of people" (Adam Smith, "Wealth
of Nations", pg. 264).
25. "Simplified tasks for those who are not simple-minded, close supervision for those whose legitimacy rests only on a hierarchical structure, and jobs that have nothing but money to offer in an affluent age are simply rejected. For many of the new workers, the monotony of work and scale of organization and their inability to control the pace and style of work are cause for a resentment which they, unlike older workers, do not repress" (H.E.W. , "Work in America", pg. 18).
26. The dramatic rise in real incomes and education levels in the last 30 years will likely continue raising workers' expectations for meaningful work. In 1979 families with income greater than $25,000 comprised 35% of all families, compared to just 8% twenty-five years ago (Sar A. Levitan and Clifford M. Johnson, "Work",pg. 5). Similarly, the median years of schooling for American workers has risen to 12.7 years, up from 8.7 years in 1940 (ibid., pg.7). The percentage of college graduates placed in jobs where their education is not needed has grown dramatically in the last decade ("Entry Jobs for College Graduates: The Occupational Mix is Changing", "Monthly Labor Review", June 1978, pg. 52). The 1970 "Survey of Working Conditions" by the University of Michigan found that more than a third of workers thought they had more education than what their jobs required.
27. "I cannot think it probable that they (working
people) will be permanently contented with the condition of laboring for wages
as their ultimate state. To work at the bidding and for the profit of another,
without any interest in the work . . . is, not even when wages are high,
a satisfactory state to human beings of educated intelligence who have ceased
to think themselves naturally inferior to those whom they serve" (J.S. Mill,
"Principles of Political Economy", as quoted in Edward B. Harvey's "Industrial
Society", pg. 215, emphasis in original).
28. three sufficient conditions of alienation as outlined by the Yugoslavian economist Branko Horvat: "1. Labor power is marketed as a commodity . . . 2. There is a division between manual and mental labor. . . 3. Work and political activities are organized hierarchically . . ." (Branko Horvat, "The Political Economy of Socialism", 1982, pg. 89).
29. Jaroslav Vanek "The identification which a voter experiences in a full political democracy with his government and the running of public affairs is experienced, in a far more immediate and concrete manner, by a member of a labor-managed firm which is essentially and necessarily a producers' democracy" ( "The General Theory of Labor-Managed Market Economies", pg. 224).
30. John M. Keynes stated in 1930 that:
"For at least another
hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul
and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and
precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead
us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight" ( J.M. Keynes, as
quoted in E. F. Schumacher's, Small is Beautiful, pg. 24, 1973).
31. Democracy . . . spreads through the body social a restless activity, superabundant force, and energy never found elsewhere, which, however little favored by circumstance, can do wonders. Those are its true advantages. ( Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy, p. 244. as quoted in Bowles and Gintis's Democracy and Capitalism, p. 211.)
32. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully
exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is
to prevent harm to others. His own good . . . is not a sufficient warrant. (John
Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Marshall Cohen ed. p. 197-98.)
33. We see, then, how far the monuments of wit and learning
are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the
verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss
of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,
cities, have been decayed and demolished? (Francis Bacon, The Advancement of
Learning, 1605)
34. "The kid I was when I first left home
was looking for his freedom
and a life of his own
but the freedom that he found
was'nt quite as sweet
when the truth was known
I have prayed for America
I was made for America
I can't let go till she comes around
until the land of the free
is awake and can see
and until her conscience has been
found
Jackson Browne, last part of the song "For America" 1986
from the album "Lives in the Balance"
35. Inflation is the time when those who have saved for a rainy get soaked
36. "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." Albert Einstein, 1930.
37. "Genius in one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." Thomas A. Edison, 1931.
38. "Prosperity is when the prices of the things that you sell are rising; inflation is when the prices of the things that you buy are rising. Recession is when other people are unemployed; depression is when you are unemployed. Anonymous.
39. "We know that our salvation rests in sharing equally. The message has always been the same, from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx. But nature has fashioned us cleverly. Over the long haul it has been easier for humans to take, than to give or share. We have been programmed by our biology to know that it is better to be "one-up" than "one-down" David Kipnis, 1977
40. Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Ecclesisastes, 10:19
41. Even the blind can see money. Chinese Proverb.
42. Money is like a sixth sense-and you can't make use of the other five without it. Somerset Maugham (? the WWII book the "Razor's Edge")
43. Money and not morality is the principle of commercial
nations.
Thomas Jefferson
44. The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact
in our civilization.
G.
B. Shaw
45. Money is the mother's milk of politics.
Attributed
to James Farley and Other Insightful Politicians
46. As wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to it by some means or another. Edmund Burke
47. It's the same the whole
world over-
It's the poor what gets the blame,
While the rich
has all the pleasures.
Now ain't that a bleedin' shame?
-English Music Hall Ballad
48. The love of money is the root of all evil. 1 Timothy 6:10
49. The ideas of economists and political philosphers, both
when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly
understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe
themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually
slaves of some defunct economist.
John Maynard Keynes
50. The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
51. F. Scott Fitzgerald: You know, Ernest, the rich are different
from us.
Ernest Hemingway: Yes, I know. They have more
money than we do.
52. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for
all the rest.
Winston Churchill
53. A fair day's-wages for a fair day's-work; it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
54. Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born;
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight
William Blake
55. The interests of society are the great rails on
which humanity moves, but the ideas throw the switches.
Max Weber
56. A greater result is obtained by producing goods in round-about
ways than by producing them directly . . . . That round-about methods lead to
greater results than direct methods is one of the most important and fundamental
propositions in the whole theory of production.
Eugen Von Bohm-Bawerk
57. Unfortunately, policymakers cannot act as if the economy
is an automobile that can quickly be steered back and forth. Rather, the procedure
of changing aggregate demand is much closer to that of a captain navigating
a giant supertanker. Even if he gives a signal for a hard turn, it takes a mile
before he can see a change, and ten miles before the makes the turn.
Robert J. Gordon
58. Funny quote taken from Branko Horvat's Political Economy
p. 34
(I know you are all gathered here to learn about the advance of the study of
scientific socialism, but I sure hope that) the Devil -Enemy is not present
here and I mean all wicked individuals such as left and right deviationists,
revisionists, antiparty elements, provocateurs, saboteurs and wreckers, cosmopolitans,
dogmatists, left and right opportunists, technocrats and bureaucrats, bourgeois
elements, imperialist agents and lackeys, counterrevolutionaries, hirelings,
sectarians and splinter elements, careerists and conspirators, Trotskyites,
Stalinists, Maoists, krypto-kulaks, anarcho-syndicalists, anarcho-liberals and
left-sectarians
59. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Whoever expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization expects what never was and never will be. "
60. All statements including the word "all" are false, including
this one.
taken from Jim
McQuiston's Miss Econ Devel. Report
61. "Thus, from the beginning, capitalism has been characterized by a tension between laissez-faire and intervention--laissez-faire representing the expression of its economic drive, intervention of its democratic political orientation. That tension continues today, a deeply imbedded part of the historic character of the capitalist system." Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow
62. "I've read your Bill of Rights a hundred times and I'll
probably read it a hundred more before I die.
"I'm not sure the American people have
any idea how blessed they are to have the Bill of Rights.
"After all, who needs a document to guarantee
rights that people already presume they have? Ask the people who tore down fences
and jumped walls. Ask the people who were cut off from their families and deprived
of their jobs. Ask my fellow workers at the Gdansk shipyard.
"Freedom may be the soul of humanity,
but sometimes you have to struggle to prove it." Lech Walesa, Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate
Taken from Wall Street Journal 5/21/90 p. c20
63. "A banker is a person that lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it rains." Mark Twain (Ken Buford contributed from issue of Reader's Digest)
64. "Communism; the longest and most painful route from capitalism to capitalism." ??? (same source as above?)
65. "People crushed by law have no hopes but from power.
If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws: and those, who have
much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous more or less." Edmund
Burke
letter to the Hon. C.J. Fox, Oct 8, 1777.
66. "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
67. "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." Samuel Butler, Note Books
68. "Many forms of government have been tried, and will be
tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect
or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government
except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Winston Churchill, House of Commons, Nov. 11, 1947.
69. "Men make their own history, but not always the way they
think they do."
K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire
of Louis Bonaparte (Moscow: Progress
Publishers, 1954) p. 10.
70. ". . . some reduction in the degree of unnecessary
inequality will be regarded as a desirable goal by most ethical, religious and
philosophical systems. . . . I belong to the middle group [of economists] who
think that improving minimum standards of living for those at the bottom is
a desirable goal. And who think that a gradual reduction in inequality and expansion
of equality of opportunity is both desirable and feasible"
Paul Samuelson, "Economics from the Heart", 1983, p220.
71. "Can't leap over chasm in two jumps." Soviet saying.
72. A toast: "On the top is the party, in the middle is the managers, beauracrats, and on the bottom is the working class, let's drink to the working class." Soviet saying.
73. The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation
of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both
bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway
74. . . . In becoming consciously a science of human behavior
economics will lay less stress upon wealth and more stress upon welfare.
Wesley C.
Mithchell
75. It is almost as difficult to define the boundaries of welfare economics as it to define economics itself. Kenneth E. Boulding
76. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made. Robert Browning
77. It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes --George
Santayana
78. The need to choose, to sacrifice some ultimate values to others, turns out to be a permanent characteristic of the human predicament. --Isiah Berlin
79. The combined assumptions of maximizing behavior, market equilbrium, and stable preferences, used relentlessly and unflinchingly, form the heart of the economic approach. --Gary S. Becker
80. The definition to which economic writers have yielded a more general assent than to any other . . . is ëthe science of exchanges.í --A. S. Bolles-- 1878
81. . . . that the definition of Political Economy which calls it the science of exchanges, is absurd. Franklin H. Giddings 1887
82. We must regard industrial and commercial life, not as a separate and detached region of activity, but as an organic part of our whole personal and social life; and we shall find the clue to the conduct of men in their commercial relations, not in the first instance amongst those characteristics wherein our pursuit of industrial objects differs form our pursuit of pleasure or of learning, or our efforts form some political and social ideal, but rather amongst those underlying principles of conduct and selection wherein they all resemble each other. . . Phillip H. Wicksteed
83. A good book is precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life..... Milton
84. Be patient, never panic
be nervous, keep a close watch
invest for the long term, the short term is unpredictable
invest for the short term, the long term is unpredictable
be flexible, change courses
be steadfast, keep a steady course
never sell too soon
itís never too soon to sell
buy when prices are low and thereís nowhere to go but
up
buy when prices are high; things will continue to go up
let your profits run
cut your losses, and take profits as soon as you can
never risk what you canít afford to lose
a big risk is the key to a big gain
A survey of industry professional and their opinions compiled by John Rothchild in book, "A Fool and His Money"
85. Why should we take up farming when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world? African Bushman quoted by Jared Diamond in Robert Byrne book of 637 quotations.
86. No more good must be attempted than the public can bear. Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 ibid.
87. There has never been a good government. Emma Goldman 1869-1940, ibid
88. Politics consists of choosing between the disastrous
and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith, ibid.
89. Men should think twice before making widowhood womenís only path to power. Gloria Steinem, ibid.
90. Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. Martin Friedman, ibid.
91. My grandmotherís brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a Democrat in the family. Emo Phillips, ibid.
92. Get out of here and leave me alone. Last words are for fools who havenít said enough already. Last words of Karl Marx 1818-1883, allegedly, ibid.
93. If the rich could hire people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. Jewish proverb, ibid.
94. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. Taken from Rediscovering Americaís Values by Francis Moore Lappe.
95. Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it. Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1790, ibid.
96. The prosperity of the middle and lower classes depends on the good fortune and light taxes of the rich. Andrew Mellon, industrialist, ibid.
97. The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations. . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. . . Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging. . . . The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations 1776, ibid.
98. . . . co-operation [worker ownership] . . . would make it [the workersí] principle and their interest- at present it is neither- to do the utmost, instead of the least possible, in exchange for their remuneration. John Stuart Mill, Principle of Political Economy, 1848, ibid.
99. . . . being the managers rather of other peopleís money
than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they [managers of joint-stock
companies] should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the
partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. . . Negligence
and profusion, therefore, must always prevail. . .
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776, ibid.
100. How many "mís" are there in management (or marketing)? It depends on how you spell Mickey Mouse.
101. For when was honey ever made
with one bee in the hive.
Thomas Hood, The Last Man
102. Two Heads are better than one.
John Heywood,Proverbs
103. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its mighty waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." Frederick Douglas, 1857 (former slave, articulate spokesperson for emancipation, Vice-Presidential candidate in 1872)
104. Labor can and will become its own employer through cooperative
associations. . . What I believe is, the time has come when the laboring men
can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers; that
the employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries.
. . laboring men possess sufficient intelligence. . . to enjoy the entire benefits
of their own labor.
Leland Stanford, founder of Central Pacific Railroad and Stanford University,
and U.S. Senator. Stanford introduced legislation to encourage worker ownership
(it failed) and wanted Stanford University to become a center fro the propagation
of worker cooperatives (he died before he could institutionalize this at the
school). Quoted in Worker Coop, summer, 1990. This was taken from NCEO newsletter,
Dec 1990.
105. Capitalism in stores, socialism at work. By David Kotz/Tom Weiskopf at 1992 AEA convention
106. In the Soviet Union; We pretended to work and they pretended to pay us. ibid.
107. peoples property was no oneís property
108. Problem isnít just that they donít have a market system, but they also donít have a public system. Ed Phelps AEA ë92.
109. "only the little people pay taxes" Leona Helmsey
110. You donít see any hearses with luggage racks. Don Henley (album. ...?
111. Negation, restriction, inactivity - these are the governmentís watch-words. . . . but we are not totttering to our graves. . . There is no reason why we should not feel ourselves free to be bold, to be open, to experiment, to take action, to try the possibilities of things. John Maynard Keynes Essays in Persuasion, 1931.
112. Find me someone at 20 who is not a liberal and Iíll show you someone without a heart. Show me someone at 40 who is not a conservative, and Iíll show you someone without a head. Winston Churchill
113. Now we have arrived at the waterhole! We who are poor have always paid back twice what we borrowed. Because we were dying of thirst we had to agree. Now a new waterhole is coming to Mipa. When we borrow we will be drinking with our neighbors and for a decent fee. We must be grateful for this opportunity and use it well." So spoke a farmer in Tanzania when the Mipa Credit Union was organized. p. 6 "Credit Unions" by Jack Dublin, Wayne State Univ., 1966.
114. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. Abigail Adams
115. Until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. Frances Wright
116. If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for man to be there. Sojourner Truth
117. There are many women equally well qualified with men for principals and superintendents of schools, and yet, while three-fourths of the teachers are women, nearly all of them are relegated to subordinate positions--sex alone settles the question. Susan B. Anthony
118. Failure is impossible. Girls must be educated to earn a living. Women should become acquainted with the great women of the past. Susan B. Anthony
119. God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all. Martin Luther
120. Thank thee, O lord, that thou hast not created me a woman. Daily Orthodox Prayer for a male
121. There is good principle which created order, light,
and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. Pythagoras
122. "The then ruling regime took the per capita output of
cement and steel as evidence of its own indispensability, as a symptom of prosperity
and social developmetn. . . Natural resources were squandered; investments in
efficient, modern technology were lacking, and free discussions on the the conduct
of such conduct was not allowed. . . . But that is still not the main problem.
These are but consequenced of something that goes deeper than that - - man's
attitude toward the world, toward nature, toward other humans, toward being
itself. . . . Nothing but the arrogance of an alleged master of the world and
superior proprietor of reason could have produced the erroneous concept that
life, the economy--the whole world--can be managed from one single center by
one single planner." by Vaclav Havel, former dissident and now President of
the Czech Republic, June 3, 1992, in the New York Times.
123. A man who wonít die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King 1961
124. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Godís children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" Martin Luther King 1963 (steps of the Lincoln Memorial?)
125. Never doubt that a small group of caring citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margret Mead
126. Virtue does not come from money, but rather from virture comes money, and all other things good to man. Socrates
127. "The only expression of faith is action, action, action." Mynor Melgar, who serves as the Coordinator of the Legal Office at the Guatemalan Archbishop's Office for Human Rights (ODHAG) and has received death threats, certainly deserved the applause as he is putting his life on the line everyday in Guatemala. (source--http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=11246)
128. "Wake up with a smile and go after life...Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it." - Joe Knapp (from Goodthings.com)
129. "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." - Henry Van Dyke (from Goodthings.com)
130. "There is in this world no such force as the force of a man determined to rise". - WEB Dubois (from http://pathwaysunlimited.com)
131. "There are no shortcuts around quality, and quality starts with people." - Steve Jobs (from http://pathwaysunlimited.com)
132. "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius (from http://pathwaysunlimited.com)
133. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Unknown (from http://pathwaysunlimited.com)
134. "To have a rich life, you must first enrich the lives of others." Unknown.
135. "The lack of money is the root of all evil." (? George Bernard Shaw).
136. "Answers make me wise, questions make me human." (Eve Montain ?)
137. "If it moves-tax it. If it keeps moving-regulate it. If it doesn't move-subsidize it." (Unknown)
138. "An unhurried sense of time is a form of wealth." (Unknown)
139. "Success is just obedience to a structured way of life." (Unknown)
140. "A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard." M.L. King, Chaos or Community, 1967, ch. 4.
141. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." M. L. King, Washington, D.C., Aug. 27, 1963. The phrase "I have a dream" was used by him in other speeches during the summer of that year.
142. "Let me be a free man - - free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk and think and act for myself - - and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty." Chief Joseph, Nez Pierce
143. "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." Andre Gide
144. ".......everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it." A. N. Whitehead
145. "Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory." Andrew Carnegie
146. "Work is the curse of the drinking class." Winston Churchhill
147."Sow a thought, reap a deed, sow a deed, reap a habit, sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character, reap a destiny."
148. "To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind." John Quincy Adams
149. "Darwin spoke of two types of Œstruggle¹ in the wild --conflict between individuals for reproductive success, and the struggle of each individual against the implacable forces of nature, such as cold, thirst, darkness, and exposure. . . . Still, even Darwin admitted that sometimes cooperation seems to transcend immediate needs. Examples do exist where working together for the common good appears to outweigh any zero-sum game of "I win, you lose." This latter view of evolution--that it includes a place for kindness and cooperation-- certainly is an attractive one. Don¹t all our moral codes stress that helping one another is the ultimate good? We¹re taught as babes that virtue goes beyond mere self-interest." Taken from the book "Earth" by David Brin, 1990.
150. "The vote is a light, but you got to use it to let it shine." by Fanny Lou Hammer, Mississippi civil rights activist, 1964 Democratic Convention she led the Freedom......
151. "Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those who have found it." Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslavkia, now the Czech Republic
152. "Definitions: committee: a group that keeps minutes and wastes hours credit card holder: a member of the debt set conclusion: the place where you got tired of thinking money is the root to all wealth a classic is a book that is praised, but not read when money talks, there are few interruptions take my advice...... I don¹t use it anyway an elephant is a mouse built to government specs air bags. . . inflation we can live with." Unknown
153. "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." Yoda, from the Star Wars movie the "Phantom Menace."
an economic translation of the above might be:
"Unemployment and recession lead to fear, Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to war and fascism."
154. "One is not born a woman: one becomes one." Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-86, "The Second Sex" (1949).
155. "But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?" Clare Booth Luce 1903-..., Life Oct. 16, 1970.
156. "Right here, right now, no other place I'd like to be........watching the world wake up from history." (The singer is Jesus Jones, the song is "Right Here, Right Now." Thanks to Jane C. for the info.)
157. Love like you have never been hurt,
work like you don't need the money,
and dance like nobody is watching...
158. "Human capital differs from physical capital. Knowledge workers are
not bought or sold, only rented through an employment agreement. Human capital
is mobile and will voluntarily move to other opportunities if not happy in the
current workplace."
Pete Walley, December 2004, Mississippi's Business, p8.
159.“Knowledge is like a garden, if it is not cultivated , it can’t
be harvested”. Ethiopian Proverb, Taken from African Caribbean Institute
of Jamaica, ACIJ website, 4-8-05.
160. French foreign affairs expert Thierry de Montbrial told me that this moment
reminded him of a joke: Mikhail Gorbachev was once asked how — in one
word — he would sum up the Soviet economy. "Good," he said.
Then he was asked how — in two words — he would sum up the Soviet
economy: "Not good," he said.
Taken from Thomas Friedman’s New York Times article 1-29-04
161. "The freedom and extent of human commerce depends entirely on a fidelity
with regard to promises." David Hume, 1739
162. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804. Taken from Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity
is Near, p. 335.
163. We “urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain, so
that computers can add to human intelligence, rather than be in opposition.”
Stephen Hawking as quoted in Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Near,
p. 309.
164. “Like every other technology that humankind has created, it can also
be used to amplify and enable our destructive side. It’s important that
we approach this technology in a knowledgeable manner to gain the profound benefits
it promises, while avoiding its dangers.” Ray Kurzweil, in his book The
Singularity is Near, p. 241.