Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Korten

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

Dave Barry

In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.

Edward Heath

There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

Alan Greenspan

We're going to see some erosion in a number of macroeconomic variables

Elizabeth Drew

Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.

Peter Thiel

My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.

Richard Price

I have expressed my regrets to the City. We made some mistakes out here and had some erosion problems.

I don't expect to see a sharp movement in stocks -- it will be a gradual erosion over time.

Craig Newmark

A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

Chuck Palahniuk

In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.

We're seeing a lot of things that indicate to us an erosion of the public interest. It's an increased effort, like a final gasp of desperation.

Helen Thomas

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

Benjamin Cardozo

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

Pressure on Milosevic is growing. The erosion is great. It will not take long.

This is a serious development in terms of further erosion of the FBI's credibility.

George Saunders

Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.

As long as the growth in health insurance premiums far outpaces the growth in wages, the erosion in the workplace will continue.

does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.

It's not a question of a sudden explosion in prices. It's more an erosion of the low-inflation psychology.

Evgeny Morozov

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

Gerry Spence

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

Andy Scott

It's about coastal erosion and the power of the waves on the dunes,

They haven't yet stumbled and I don't think we are seeing any erosion in applications revenues.

Julian Lennon

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?

Joseph Sobran

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

Pratibha Patil

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

Ralph Nader

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

All those names on that list actually reflect kind of a margin of safety where even if the investment pieces don't pan out, you're likely to do well or not sustain a permanent erosion of capital. So that's what we've been focusing on,

Richard Holloway

There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported people in times of crisis and need. Whenever we lose a strengthening element in society, we need to replace it with alternative systems as quickly as possible. Befriending schemes are a crucial part of this process, because they fill the gap that social erosion has left in the lives of so many vulnerable people.

Robert McKee

The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

Robert Smithson

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

Wendell Berry

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

Theresa May

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.