Adequate Quote by Ben Bernanke

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for these occurrences…

— Bertrand Russell

In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . .…

— Bertrand Russell

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of…

— Peter L. Berger

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

— Fareed Zakaria

“Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary” persistence in living the humble, consistent life…

— Andrew Stephen Damick

“(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“In a BBC broadcast in 1934, when he was a year away from finishing The General Theory, Keynes pinpointed the fundamental difference between an…

— Stephen A. Marglin

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual…

— Bertrand Russell

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

— Tony Campolo

“Despite the rise of the mental health profession, people are becoming increasingly vulnerable to depression. Why? Martin Seligman, a brilliant psychologist with no religious…

— John Ortberg