John Bates Clark If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves. – John Bates Clark Accepted Quotes Adjustment Quotes Continuing Quotes Court Quotes Gain Quotes Involves Quotes Refused Quotes Strike Quotes Violence Quotes The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
Seth I don’t think it’s a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children. – Seth
Kenneth R Miller Evolution isn’t just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It’s an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect. – Kenneth R Miller
B F SkinnerEducation Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B F Skinner
Alberto Manguel I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it’s a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there. – Alberto Manguel
Maxine Peake We shouldn’t still be asking, ‘Have you got children? Why’ve you not got children? Ooh, you must have children!’ Bog off, d’you know what I mean? – Maxine Peake
Harry Emerson Fosdick To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
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