economic parity Quotes

We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.

There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

I want my people to live like white people and have the same chance… we want to travel the same road as the white man.

The true meaning of the word ‘Equality’ is—“No one better off than I am."

Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.

The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.

So many women are financially dependent on men. So why can't men be dependent on women? I'm totally okay with it.

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

I think Europe is well advised to form a unified economic force to be on par with the U.S. and China.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

The only way to keep food prices down is to keep them [farmers] down on the farm after they've seen the parity.

We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into understanding that there needs to be an equal starting block. You can't rush to make the changes. The rush that I have is to change the mindset of the people who can actually influence the situation in developed countries and in under - developed countries ... and not all under-developed countries need to develop. Maybe they just need to learn and be re - given the tools to understand how to use the land that they live on.