Economy Quotes

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms econ...

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquer...

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

Laissez faire laissez passer.

Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted...

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assi...

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words f...

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate averag...

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for ...

The issue of false consciousness is a genuinely difficult problem that has no definite solution. We ...

Economics is a political argument. It is not – and can never be – a science; there are no objective ...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the pr...

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability ...

The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the ...

Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In ...

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants o...

She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic patte...

THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gent...

Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialis...

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; th...

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, an...

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class...

New tech explosions create winners and losers, but overall are remarkably positive for the country, ...

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic:...

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen...

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the developmen...

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I...

It's easy to make money when you have a lot of it.

It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I do...

One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connec...

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time ac...

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is wher...

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back t...

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and...

They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater propri...

That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental an...

We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy g...

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a ...

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to rem...

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Oh, and 13.1 million American people had their homes foreclosed. Because their debt, it turns out, w...

Trust is central to an economy that works.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively e...

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge mid...

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesi...

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the...

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was ...

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British econom...

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, no...

It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relatio...

If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to...

Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of huma...

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, o...

All money is a matter of belief.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are pe...

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wis...

So you think money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is ...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal sh...

Beware of little expenses a small leak will sink a great ship.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of societ...

Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency ...

New Rule: Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That's right, the NFL ...

Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized ho...

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, the...

After order and liberty economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy i...

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent ve...

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political syste...

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

In God's economy, you may even harvest a crop in places where you didn't plant seed. When you're gen...

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection ...

Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slum...