"Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor."

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Source : Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”

Barber Conable

#Work Quotes #Two Quotes #Income Quotes

“Were we incapable of empathy â€“ of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own â€“ then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”
“It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.”
“To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.”
“Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life.”
“Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.”
“Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.”
“There are no more geniuses, only critics.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.203, Univ of California Press
“Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.”

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