Expenditures Quotes - Page 5

• Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Health, Government, Forever

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• For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Ambition, School, Training

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• Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

  James Dyson

  Years, Want, Lasts

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• The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Success, Wise, Wealth

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• Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

  Frederick Douglass

  Eye, House, Greed

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, People, Trying

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• If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies to reduce their advertising expenditure - simply because they do not understand its full value and especially as it is usually the single biggest investment on the balance sheet.

  Paul Dyson

  Business, Cutting, Balance

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• Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Pain, Business, Doubt

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• Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, Real, People

  Michael Parenti (1995). “Against Empire”, p.77, City Lights Books

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• I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Luxury, Giving

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• One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire murderers. The net result of the man's economical habits is to increase the armed forces of the State to which he lends his savings. Obviously it would be better if he spent the money, even if he spent it in drink or gambling.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Men, Past

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

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• But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

  Anthony Burgess

  Feelings, Energy, Evening

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”

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• A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

  Anatole France

  Military, War, Patriotic

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• I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

  Franz Kafka

  Tired, Sleep, Effort

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s

  Kevin Rudd

  Cutting, Government, Growth

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• I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well paid, well trained, well equipped.

  George W. Bush

  War, Fighting, Winning

  George W. Bush's Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 15, 2003.

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• To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Atmosphere, Cost

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• Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

  Anthony Eden

  Political, Politics, Favour

  1956 In the Observer, 17 Jun.

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• If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Business, Way, Pressure

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• The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates.

  David Starr Jordan

  Life, Men, Law

  David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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• I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Friendship, Believe, Book

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• With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

  Ernst Engel

  Demand, Patterns, Income

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• What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

  Walter Karp

  Powerful, Military, Cities

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• Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

  William Vickrey

  Educational, Quality, Income

  "Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey".

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• I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

  Andrew Johnson

  Economy, Source, Duty

  First State of the Union Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. December 04, 1865.

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