Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

We need to have strong growth, fair growth, sustained growth.

Pollution Prevention, Not Polluter Protection Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

Stable growth ensures employment.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

The people of this country have been erroneously encouraged to believe that they could keep on increasing the output of farm and factory indefinitely and that some magician would find ways and means for that increased output to be consumed with reasonable profit to the producer.

Growth is good for this society as long as it doesn't pass the point of tripping off inflation.

This country will not support a flat-liner [no economic growth] for President.

You cannot have prosperity without peace. Without peace, China cannot continue to develop itself.

The primary task of developing countries is to develop the economy and eradicate poverty. Without economic growth, there would be no material basis for a better life or better environment for the people. But economic growth must not be achieved at the cost of environment or resources. In the absence of proper resource and environmental protection, there could be no sustainable economic development.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output. ... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.

For development, peace is essential.

Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.

We now have the economics confirming that not only is climate action required to reduce climate risks, but that it is vital to building long-term, sustainable economic growth.

The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.