Quotes About Devaluation

Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.

a woman who'd come of age in the 1990s mentioned "the unfinished business" of the sexual revolution: "What went wrong?" Even without a backlash, what went wrong is what always does: capitalism bit down, absorbed the liberationist impulse, mass-produced the sex but everywhere devalued knowledge, meaningful education, manifold reality; and liberationist forces were too besieged or internally at odds to withstand

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

Fue la locura financiera, un ciclo autodestructivo de impagos y devaluaciones, la que hizo que Argentina pasara de ser el sexto país más rico del mundo en la década de 1880 a convertirse en un desastre inflacionista en la de 1980.

Sometimes, if a country's currency is overvalued in real terms, and it looks like the current account is going to be in deficit for the foreseeable future, devaluation can make sense.

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

Governments, many of them European, are actually offering - and investors are buying - bonds that are worth less at the end of five or 10 or even 30 years than their purchase price.

To nations holding large amounts of that particular currency in their reserve vaults, the effects of the devaluation is the same as if the vaults had been burglarized.

What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

The loss of a sense of the sacred, the devaluation of intelligence and consciousness in nature beyond ourselves, has permitted the stronger among us to exploit the earth's resources without regard to future generations.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth.

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

By applying actual words with significant specific diagnostic meanings to much lighter circumstances, people are robbing and devaluing people with mental illness.

Mediocrity/inferiority complex is the end result of self-hate i.e. intense dislike/devaluation of oneself/yourself.

Mediocrity/Inferiority complex is the end result of self-hate i.e. Mediocrity or Inferiority complex is nothing else but intense dislike or devaluation of oneself or your own self. Yes! that is just that. Thus, desist from that. ~Emeasoba George

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.

Awards have lost their charm. The experience of getting an award has completely dissolved. Awards functions start in December and go on till April and are distributed for anything and everything. Categories like Best Jodi, Best Dressed Celebrity are all redundant.

The hardhearted person never sees people as a people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel. In the vast wheel of industry, he sees men as hands. In the massive wheel of big city life, he sees men as digits in a multitude. In the deadly wheel of army life, he sees men as numbers in a regiment. He depersonalizes life.