Best Economic Quotes

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution – Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital – and that’s before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

The people’s community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy…Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

I don’t think it’s going to be related to social or economic policies; it’s going to be the fact that [Barack Obama] said let’s go forward, not backward, in regard to the violations of law that occurred under the Bush administration.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new ism, but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability – we must have both

We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.

Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.