Gauges Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gauges Income Income Natural Measure Respectability Natural Natural Rational Nature Rational Respectability
“My income is in direct proportion to my ability to add massive and measurable levels of value to other human beings." ―Mark Anastasi” — Erlend Bakke Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.” — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Value isn’t calculated by a person’s net worth or income. It’s calculated by integrity and decency.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity. — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“Wages, profit, and rent, are the three original sources of all revenue, as well as of all exchangeable value. All other revenue is ultimately… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial, arbitrary and fallacious; for, as Sir Sycophas… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“What is the ethical or philosophical justification for a basic income? A fundamental claim is that it is an instrument of social justice that… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest, I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest, Have you… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with… — Phil Callaway Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society.… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that ‘the worth… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono. — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you… — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
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