Karl Polanyi Quotes

There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.

Karl Polanyi

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• But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Natural
  • Rights
  • Recycling

• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Natural
  • Old
  • Admiration

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • More
  • Market
  • Far

• Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Helping
  • Working

• The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

  

  Washington Irving
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Natural

• Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Things
  • Public
  • Courses

• I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Help

• There's a witch under this hair. The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • World
  • Business
  • Character

• The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • World
  • Business
  • Character

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from the universe that this guy, Todd Brotzman, played by Elijah Wood, is the guy to help him through this mystery. But of course, that doesn't really explain the breadth of it.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Help
  • Guy

• If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • America
  • Today
  • Market

• Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Present
  • Actors
  • Natural

• When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Help
  • Positive
  • Confidence

• The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • School
  • Courses

• If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • God
  • Help

• The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Natural
  • Use
  • Resources

• Freedom. I will not give you up.

  

  George Michael
  • Freedom
  • Give Up

• For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?

  

  Cassiodorus
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Concord

• Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

  

  Confucius
  • Society
  • Consideration
  • Good Life

• The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people’s lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.

  

  Chris Killip
  • History
  • Moment
  • Make

• There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.

  

  Karl Polanyi
  • Helping
  • Natural
  • Market