Quote by Thomas Piketty Download Open image ““In Britain, things were done differently: more slowly and with less passion.”” — Thomas Piketty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They chose to be different. And in doing so, they proved that through struggle, sacrifice and service, staggering personal transformation is possible.” — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“Change comes from dedicated, ordinary people, in the trenches, serving a cause greater than self.” — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the leisure they they have for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Slower, it turns out, often means better - better health, better work, better business, better family life, better exercise, better cuisine and better sex.” — Carl Honoré Copy Share Image
“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“US inequality in 2010 is quantitatively as extreme as in old Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century, but the structure of… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“When it comes to decreasing inequalities of wealth for good or reducing unusually high levels of public debt, a progressive tax on capital is… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“In other words, low growth cannot adequately counterbalance the Marxist principle of infinite accumulation: the resulting equilibrium is not as apocalyptic as the one… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“I belong to a generation that came of age listening to news of the collapse of the Communist dicatorships and never felt the slightest… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“the population of the world grew at an average annual rate of barely 0.8 percent between 1700 and 2012.” — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
