Surplus Quotes - Page 2

• Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

  Josiah Strong

  Country, Land, Population

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Uncles, Population, Scrooge

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.

  Benjamin Creme

  America, People, Dying

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.

  Evan Bayh

  Cutting, Eight, Indiana

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• Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

  Gray Davis

  Lines, Flaws, Plant

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• The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

  Melissa Bean

  Responsibility, Past, People

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• The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

  Edward Carpenter

  Taken, Doe, Facts

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

  Miranda July

  Years, Ideas, Interesting

  "Miranda July" by Matthew Higgs, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

  Alfred Marshall

  Land, Names, Producers

  Alfred Marshall, Peter Groenewegen (1997). “Collected works”

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• I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

  Debby Ryan

  Military, School, Army

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• People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

  Mao Zedong

  Two, People, Legs

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• Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

  Tom Ridge

  Ohio, Election, Mess

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Country, Technology, Opportunity

  "Sheryl Sandberg Joins Global Women Leaders in Tech to Demand Gender Equality" by Musimbi Kanyoro, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.

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• We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

  John Spratt

  Moving, High Heels, Years

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• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  Will Durant

  Summer, Dog, Art

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the relationship; and in its refusal ever to regard the other as a thing, an object, a utilizability. Sex is an exchange of pleasures, of needs; love is a giving without return. It is this giving without return, this helping without reward, this surplus of pure good, that identifies the uniqueness of man as well as the true nature of the true marriage. This is the quintessence the great alchemy of sex is for.

  John Fowles

  Love, Sex, Men

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• The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

  Carlos Slim

  People, World, Care

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• The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

  George Eastman

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

  Stuart Symington

  Running, War, Shoes

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• When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Average, Hands, People

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.122, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Giving Up, Mistake, Responsibility

  Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

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• Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.

  Elie Abel

  Country, Giving, President

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• Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Giving, Ungrateful

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.182, Discovery House

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• They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

  Robert Reischauer

  Fighting, Two, Want

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• At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.

  Joan Robinson

  Government, Patterns, Moments

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.218, Academic Press

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