Top 1200 Economic Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in past generations in America, was through religion. The religions instilled guilt. ... And this guilt, derived from religion, has been a huge driver of a reliability ethos, which has been very helpful to economic outcomes for man.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people.

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.

Our locker room is so positive. We are all focused on the same objectives, and that's equality for women.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

We need an inspiring vision of equality that resonates in the hearts, minds, and souls of all Americans.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.

Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom - and the right of contract, which is one of the main functions of economic freedom. Therefore, even under Capitalism, so long as the old principles were remembered it was possible to recall the principles whereby Society had once been sane and well ordered.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can find NO exceptions: Where the State prevents a free market, by banning any form of goods or services, consumer demand will create a black market for those goods or services, at vastly higher prices. Can YOU think of a single exception to this law?

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.

The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and that the only way you can actually do that, is that then you have to have a political, economic system that facilitates that. And then you get into the issues of human rights, justice, economic justice, social justice, and good governance or democratic governance. That's how it ties up.

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?