Famous quotes containing the word economic:
“In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go upor else all go downas one people.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“Three factorsthe belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at workhave taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice. The stress is in our civilization.”
—Margaret Mead (19011978)