Corruption Quote by William Easterly Download Open image ““Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.”” — William Easterly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption Economy Growth Politics
“Imbalanced systems,whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.” — Richard C. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“When growth becomes a supreme good, unrestricted by any other ethical considerations, it can easily lead to catastrophe.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.” — Robin D. Hart Copy Share Image
“Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Nothing has a greater influence over your life than your thoughts rather they are negative or positive.” — Tasha Hoggatt Copy Share Image
“When you violate the law of growth, your influence winds down, your progress gets arrested, and many more negative consequences...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
“Conflict forces one to better oneself. It forces change, growth, adaption, evolution… or death.” — Yuthura Ban Copy Share Image
“Resegregation matters because it pulls communities and regions downward, and because it impacts us not just right now, but the life chances of those… — Jeff Chang Copy Share Image
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.” — William Easterly Copy Share Image
There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“Some people believe labor-saving technological change is bad for the workers because it throws them out of work. This is the Luddite fallacy, one… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights. The emphasis on… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
“Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image