#quality

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american #american politics #been #buy #economic

If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you have achieved today is less than what you achieved yesterday, then you are deprived from the Almighty's blessings. Anyone who is not progressing, is in fact regressing, and if you are regressing, then you might as well be dead. ↗

— Ali-Ibne-Abu Talib

#self-improvement #success #equality

Please go, I beg you. I wish to stay as your equal. When I'm with you, my resolve weakens. -Tsukuyo to Gintoki(Gintama) ↗

— Sorachi Hideaki

#love #equality

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#fraternity #i #liberty #like #religion

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#countries #development #more #prerequisite #understood

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#banks #be prepared #best #central #divine

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#carried #night #quality #sleep #through

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #being #clothed #derive #due

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything. ↗

— Peter Berg

#anything #being #good #good actor #got