Edward Glaeser Quotes
An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.
Edward Glaeser
Quotes to Explore
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The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
Daniel Berrigan
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Katharine Hepburn
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We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.
Linda Chavez
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I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.
Edward Boyden
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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
Ben Affleck
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The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
Ben Bernanke
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Albert Camus
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Marianne Williamson
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Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.
Russell Baker
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People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.
Gary Saul Morson
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An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.
Edward Glaeser
