"A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting."

-- Amartya Sen

#Disgusting Quotes #Optimal Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.”
“I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.”
“For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.”
“Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.”

Source : John Legend's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.
“Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.”
“I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.”
“O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!”

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