Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Quotes

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

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• Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.

  

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• Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

  

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• Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

  

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• 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

  

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• Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.

  

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• I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

  

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• There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

  

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• It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

  

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• The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

  

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• So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

  

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• Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

  

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• For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

  

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• We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

  

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• Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

  

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• Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  

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• I am the reincarnation of Pikachu. That's why my hair is yellow, you see.

  

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• I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

  

  Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
  • Economics
  • Conclusion
  • Analyze