“Luckily for the world economy, however, Gordon Brown and his officials are making sense. And they may have shown us the way through this crisis.”

— Gordon Brown

" Gordon Does Good http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion/13krugman.html", New York Times, 12 October 2008.
Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel for Economics.
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Arnold Tustin (1899–1994) British engineer

Arnold Tustin (1955) in: Control Engineering. Vol. 2, Nr. 1-6. p. 11

“As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.”

George Galloway (1954) British politician, broadcaster, and writer

Rescuing something labour from the wreckage http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_galloway/2006/05/rescuing_something_labour_from.html, Comment is Free, May 9, 2006

“Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.”

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain

11th Sept. 2007, during a speech by the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies.
As President, 2007
Source: Zapatero: "El Gobierno ha situado a España en la Champions League de las economías del mundo" Cadena SER http://www.cadenaser.com/espana/articulo/zapatero-gobierno-ha-situado-espana/csrcsrpor/20070911csrcsrnac_5/Tes.

“Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red... But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

Quote of Claude Monet (1909), as cited in: Sarah Walden (1985) The ravished image, or, How to ruin masterpieces by restoration, p. 67
1900 - 1920

“Beauty, whatever use man may make of it, belongs fundamentally to its Creator, who through it projects into the world of appearances something of His being.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2019, Esoterism as Principle and as Way, World Wisdom, 190, 978-1-93659765-9]
God, Beauty

“God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. — And we — we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.”

Friedrich Nietzsche God is dead

Gott ist tot! aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht noch Jahrtausende lang Höhlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt.
Und wir — Wir müssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen.
Sec. 108
Quotes about quotes: see also God is dead.
The Gay Science (1882)
Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.”

W. H. Auden book The Dyer's Hand

"The Guilty Vicarage", p. 157
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

“Today we have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive. What we need are economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow.”

Kate Raworth book This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

[Raworth, Kate, This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook, 2019, London, Penguin Books, 146-154, A new economics, 9780141991443]

“Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“If my theoretical studies have contained any subjective value judgment, then this has amounted at most to a preference for freedom and progress rather than state control of the economy and distribution of such scanty prosperity as may be available for distribution at a given moment. I have wanted to make it clear that this preference is a great common interest of all parties, both in the management of the world economy and in every individual nation. Such a position may be attacked, but it cannot be denominated as party-politics in the ordinary sense.”

Gustav Cassel (1866–1945) Swedish economist

Cassel (1941, 440); as cited in: Carlson, Benny, and Lars Jonung. "Knut Wicksell, Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin and Gunnar Myrdal on the role of the economist in public debate." Econ Journal Watch 3.3 (2006): 524-5.

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