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The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God’s people principles of economic empowerment

The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.

We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government

Your talent is any capability which creates economic value for an organization’s customer or shareholder.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown, For the Pennsylvania we never found, For the promises our teachers gave, If we worked hard, If we behaved... So the graduations hang on the wall, But they never really helped us at all, No they never taught us what was real, Iron and coke, And chromium steel, And we're waiting here in Allentown... But they've taken all the coal from the ground, And the union people crawled away...

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.

Actually, voting in countries like Indonesia is unpatriotic, as it only legitimizes the regime, which serves foreign political and economic interests, as well as those totally prostituted 'elites'.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

All countries have problems with China's economic power.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

All three of the leaders looked like they were surprised to be asked about housing. And really none of them had anything interesting to say. And so this is something we need to push hard on to ensure that they understand that our housing crisis is really a major economic issue. It's not a social issue; it's an economic issue.

All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

Another similarity of Brexit and Trump's campaigns was an attack on so-called elites. This is not so much a failure of capitalism as of its high priests in the economic profession, for which we must all take some responsibility.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.