Fosters Quotes
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.
vilfredo pareto— page 300 (Manual of Political Economy)
Modern technique, as Marx pointed out, fosters the concentration of capital, and the levels of profits is supported by a scarcity of enterprise which is not due to the real cost of risk-bearing, but to the scarcity of individuals who have anything to risk.
joan robinson— Chapter VII, The Orthodox Theory of Profit, p. 57-58
You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
sheri s. tepper— Guardian Camwar, in Ch. 4 : the cooper
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.
Eric Hoffer— Entry (1960)
But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.
john keats— "Ode on Melancholy", st. 2.
I think globalization actually maintains and fosters various elements of national and cultural identities. I don’t think everything is being homogenized. If anything, your food, your culture, and your ethnicity might become part of the globalized world, and thus absorbed by other countries.
nouriel roubini— Quoted in Janera Soerel, "Talking to Nouriel Roubini," Janera (2007-05-02)
The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good.
john lancaster spalding— p. 212 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Liberty sets the mind free , fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone. This is something that politicians in particular must keep in mind.
Boris Yeltsin— As quoted in Russia and the Independent States (1993) by Daniel C. Diller, p. 446
Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.
— Marvin Bower, (1997). The Will to Lead. p. 131, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 0-87584-758-7.
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being,
john kenneth galbraith— Ch. 13 (The Culture of Contentment (1992))
