Stagnation Quotes - Page 4

• To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.

  Paul A. Baran

  Intellectual, Growth, Culture

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 8, (p. 300), 1957.

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• I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Recovery, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

  George Soros

  Rights, Friendly, Overcoming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

  Mario Cuomo

  Dream, Mobility, Nightmare

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• We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

  Mario Cuomo

  Success, Dream, Hard Work

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• Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.

  Anna Brackett

  Sweet, Real, Moving

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• Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.

  W. Graham Scroggie

  Energy, May, Panic

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• There are many good reasons for young people to go off to college, open their minds, develop their skills and enjoy themselves. But probably the major attraction is the fact that income disparities have increased sharply between those who go to college versus those who do not. This pattern corresponds with the stagnation of average wages since the early 1970s. The reality under neoliberalism has been that, if you want to have a decent shot at a good-paying job with a chance for promotions and raises over time, the most important first step is to get a college education.

  Robert Pollin

  Reality, College, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

  Willard Scott

  Depressing, August, Littles

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• Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

  Richard Corliss

  Vcr, Magic, Promise

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• American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

  Fanny Kemble

  Animal, Men, Stupidity

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.

  Paul A. Baran

  Organization, Decay, Development

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.5, NYU Press

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• Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Real, Challenges, Income

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended.

  Patience Strong

  Summer, Moving, Air

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wind, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.367, Penguin

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• Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Boys, West, Problem

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.

  Sonia Choquette

  Journey, Frustration, Self

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• I am wary of repeating myself too much. In this age of Netflix, as a Netflix show, if you want to go back and watch a season 1 episode, you can do that easily. I'm not interested in repeating the same story beats over and over and over again. But part of the truth of BoJack story is about how much he repeats himself and these patterns that are difficult to get out of. I'm trying not to be evasive about that. I'm not using that as an excuse. I think that's convenient to fall back on as a TV writer: "Oh, it's a show about stagnation."

  Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  Fall, Thinking, Age

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.

  Max Planck

  Hands, Pockets, Would Be

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• The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

  George Leonard

  Order, Long, Scarcity

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.139, Gibbs Smith

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• War is progress, peace is stagnation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  War, Progress

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• The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

  Samuel Butler

  Ethics, Morality, Absolutes

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4218, Delphi Classics

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• It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Ideas, People, Despair

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• I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Source: www.heavenonearthdocumentary.com

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• Innovation doesn't come from one big thing, it comes from a piece at a time, from combining existing technology. We have in a sense a stagnation, in all those areas where we have cronyism and political correctness and the precautionary principle. Get all of those together, then yeah, you have stagnation, and that's what we're seeing.

  Charles Koch

  Technology, Political, Innovation

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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