I got involved in cultural studies because I didn't think…

One way to measure the size of a company, industry, or economy is to determine its output. But a better way is to determine…

— Michael Spence

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth…

— Anonymous

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

— George W. Romney

Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is…

— Aldo Leopold

... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,…

— Davis McCaughey

All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can…

— Ted Nordhaus

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The…

— Jerry Saltz

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

— Barack Obama

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

— Michael Servetus

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

— Dan Savage

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

— Rowan Williams