Diffusion Quotes - page 3

To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries. (Joseph Stiglitz)
Research has shown that the bystander effect is often motivated by diffusion of responsibility, when different people witnessing an emergency all assume someone else will help. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
Christianity may produce agitation, anger, tumult as at Ephesus; but the diffusion of the pure gospel of Christ, and the establishment of the institutions of honesty and virtue, at whatever cost, is a blessing to mankind. View quote
Albert Barnes
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. View quote
William Hague
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. View quote
Thomas Piketty
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills. View quote
Thomas Piketty
The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge. View quote
Thomas Piketty
The bipolar world is over, but it not going to be replaced by a unipolar world empire that the United States controls alone. The world is already economically multipolar, and there will be a diffusion of power as the information revolution progresses, interdependence increases, and transnational actors become more important. The new world will not be neat, and you will have to live with that. View quote
Joseph Nye
Commerce is but a means to an end, the diffusion of civilization and wealth. To allow commerce to proceed until the source of civilization is weakened and overturned is like killing the goose to get the golden egg. Is the immediate creation of material wealth to be our only object? View quote
William Stanley Jevons