Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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I love feminine soft shades for summers - I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops; I think they never go out of style. As much as I'm happy with Western wear for red carpet and social dos, I also like Indian ethnic wear for special occasions.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.
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If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.
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Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.
