"I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American."

-- Howard Frank Mosher

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Bills Quotes

“Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.”

Source : Source: openvault.wgbh.org
“Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.”
“As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.”
“Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.”

Source : Herman E. Daly (2007). “Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development”, p.12, Edward Elgar Publishing
“To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.”
“I canâ€™t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.”
“Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.”
“Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.”

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