William Easterly Quotes

#1. No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

Cornelius Nepos

#2. The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#3. When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

William Easterly

#4. In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

Sathya Sai Baba

#5. Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.

Marcus Garvey

#6. To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

William Easterly

#7. [Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

James Madison

#8. Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

William Easterly

#9. We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

William Easterly

#10. Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement
which was only necessary because of them.

Ann Coulter

#11. Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

William Easterly

#12. I'm curious to see what kind of distribution it's going to get because of that.

Caroline Dhavernas

#13. The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

William Easterly

#14. Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated - it matters ... that people matter.

Steve Goodier

#15. If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

William Easterly

#16. My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#17. Money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

William Easterly

#18. What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

David Levithan

#19. I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Mitt Romney

#20. Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

William Easterly

#21. The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.

Evan Esar

#22. When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.

Paul Weller

#23. Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

Robert Breault