Expenditures Quotes - Page 6

• I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy.

  Roy Jenkins

  Thinking, Choices, Democracy

  "Inflation fight goes on, Mr Jenkins tells left". The Times, January 24, 1976.

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• Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Health, People, Dignity

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• Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

  Salvador Dali

  Sex, Accomplish Nothing, Self

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• ...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

  Smedley Butler

  Uncles, War, Dark

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• Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Lust, Fortune

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.153

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• We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Money, Business, Hair

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• One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

  Mark Skousen

  Writing, College, Thinking

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• The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.

  Frank Chodorov

  People, Political, Scientist

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Military, Years

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• Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

  Henry George

  Fighting, Water, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.358, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?

  Howard Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Stress

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• We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Children

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• There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Should, Charitable, Ought

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

  DeWitt Wallace

  Giving Money, Waste, Form

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• Expenditure rises to meet income.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Inspirational, Income

  The Law and the Profits ch. 1 (1960)

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• We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fashion, Couple, War

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• It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  War, Civilization, Citizens

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• The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

  Millicent Fenwick

  People, Special, Politics

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

  George Eliot

  Money, Errors, Differences

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.512, 谷月社

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• We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.

  Antonis Samaras

  Cutting, Mps, President

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

  Plautus

  Income, Exceed

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• Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Powerful, Inspiration, Desire

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Years, Data

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

  Rudolf Clausius

  Done, May, Heat

  "On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws Regarding the Nature of Heat Itself Which Are Deducible Therefrom" (1851)

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• In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, San Francisco, Invasion

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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