Mobility Quotes - Page 2

The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

I would say that the Vietnamese should remember that they didn't have exactly the same mobility the way the Americans have. They didn't have the same kind of equipment that the Americans have and that they have to fight their own war.