Vivienne Westwood Quotes

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

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• Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Blue
  • Economy
  • Economic

• In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Economic
  • Move
  • Integration

• China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Economic
  • China

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation
  • Economic

• Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Economic
  • Patriot
  • Barack

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Economic

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • History
  • Economic
  • Through

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Changes
  • Climate
  • Clearly

• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Way
  • Economic
  • Own

• Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Support
  • Rest
  • Economic

• We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Economic
  • Sanctions

• Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.

  

  Larry Bucshon
  • Believe
  • Careers
  • Climate

• If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Time
  • Important
  • Looks

• According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.

  

  Angela Davis
  • World
  • Age
  • Poverty

• Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.

  

  Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Music
  • Knows
  • Messages

• Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there to die. And then you will be ready to be born at last, to become a soul who is strong enough to take love on. You'll be a romantic mystic who has achieved the elements: you endured the flames of love, you were baptized in the waters of love, and now you can soar like only a mystic can through the skies and skin of a lover's heart.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Soul
  • Faith
  • Value

• Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Honest
  • Term
  • Optimistic

• Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Different
  • Needs
  • Genuine

• The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Economic
  • Climate
  • Messages