#stain

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#allocating #among #channeling #corporate #crucial

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ↗

— Bill Gates

#circumstances #economy #ensure #environment #farmers

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. ↗

— John Gay

#fuller #money #out #reputations #spot

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#come #does #end #eventually #exciting

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#case #country #extreme #greece #level

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#best #faculties #force #great #men

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#femininity #free #know #longer #manhood

Civilization can never be sustainable. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#never #sustainable

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#art #because #catharsis #even #get

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#animal-rights #capitalism #ecology #sustainability #vegan