Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

  • -- Avram Noam Chomsky 乔姆斯基

无限的经济增长具有一种神奇的品质,既能平息不满,又能保持特权,这一事实在自由派经济学家中并没有被忽视。

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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

如果人口增长、工业化以及我们排放到大气中的所有物质没有改变气候平衡,我绝对会大吃一惊。当然有。否认是没有正当理由的。

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

货币政策对长期增长起不了多大作用,我们所能做的就是努力消除经济因需求不足而低迷的时期。

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

许多人对自己的外表公开表示不满,但很少有人对自己的智力表示不满。不过,我可以向你保证,头脑简单的人要比相貌平平的人多得多。

I find that the more I begin to look around, I see so much good that people do that goes unnoticed. So many wonderful things.

我发现,当我开始环顾四周时,我看到了很多人们做的好事,却没有被注意到。这么多美好的事情。

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

他生活得并不坏,他的生与死一直为世人所忽视。

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

不满足是进步的第一需要。