Surplus Quotes

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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination.

Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.