#ono

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. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#advantage #after #child #child labor #despite

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#antagonism #between #built-in #control #created

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#drastically #economic #economic activity #entering #environment

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#development #economic #economic development #mandated #new

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ↗

— Confucius

#death #depend #determined #heaven #honors

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#economy #improvements #method #prepare #today

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#call #called #come #democracy #duty

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future". ↗

— Henry M. Wriston

#dreams #economics #education #jobs #occupations

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#forced #happiness #honor #i #i can

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#herself #honor #never #she #should