Richard Layard, Baron Layard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.
-- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.
-- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.
-- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.
-- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.
-- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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Competition for status is a zero sum game
-- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

#Zero #Games #Competition

You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one anotherâ€™s customs and opinions; respect for one anotherâ€™s rights and feelings; awareness of one anotherâ€™s needs.
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
I'm a proud member of the rabble.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard famous quotes

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