Arianna Huffington
Author, Businesswoman
"America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex."
Mobility quotes
Mobility
38 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Guy de Maupassant
Novelist
"To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on."
Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom, staying behind the sets and choosing the last place! Why is the way of Jesus worth choosing? Because it is the way to the Kingdom, the way Jesus took, and the way that brings everlasting life."
Patti Smith
Musician
"I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship."
Barack Obama
Politician
"I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool."
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"With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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