#ono

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage. ↗

— Herman E. Daly

#environment #environmentalism

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#discipline #economy #literature #literature-quotes #poetry

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#censored #considerations #dream #dreams #economic

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#america #another #apart #destroy #economy

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#courage #greatest #honor #man #mind

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#chaos #chooses #chronological #fiction #first

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#adherents #any #candidates #claimed #class

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#confusion #equates #idea #new #nothing

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#air force #always #astronomy #aviation #best

In a depression, attendance to sporting events goes down, while the percentage of people fornicating goes up, because sex is free. I know, some of you are probably thinking, Free! Where do I find those hookers?! ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#economic-depression #fornicating #funny #hookers #humor