Day-to-day-economics Quote by Amartya Sen

“Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The poor man, a term which means the man who doesn't know how to operate and release the riches of his mind, can at…

— Joseph Murphy

“People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche—effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was…

— Steven Erikson

“Obstinacy is an impediment to the free exercise of thought. It paralyses the intelligence. Conclusions based upon preconceived ideas are valueless.”

— Patricia Wentworth

“It isn’t easy in our complicated world to enjoy the pleasures of ordinary living—children, family, neighborhood, nature, walking, gathering, eating together. I imagine life…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“To live in idleness, even if you have the means, is not only injurious to yourself, but a species of fraud upon the community,…

— William A. Alcott

“Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.”

— William Shakespeare

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution,…

— Sigmund Freud

“IT is not easy—perhaps not even desirable—to judge other people by a consistent standard. Conduct obnoxious, even unbearable, in one person may be readily…

— Anthony Powell

“for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

— Samuel Johnson

“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all…

— Roland Barthes