#standard

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#become #better #denied #dissatisfied #forward

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#burden #comes #cost #enormous #horrendous

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#civilization #everybody #government #history #human

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#amount #area #automobiles #destroying #efforts

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#conformity #consequences #credit #false #gain

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#always #am #because #behind #biggest

We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#aspects #because #been #employers #eroded

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#american #american economy #country #devour #economy