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I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.

I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to have to find value in interacting with the sharing economy on many levels. And this hybrid system that's already emerging among millennials is going to be a mature system where, by midcentury, part of the day will be in the capitalist market, part of the day in the sharing economy, depending on your marginal costs.

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

I think I could have a funnier, more economic sets. But that's the comedy I do. And I understand if people aren't interested in it and would rather listen to someone else. But I'll never understand the anger people have toward me.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

I think what we need is goodwill because now our struggle is harder because it is an economic struggle. And now Europe is organising itself. So I think there needs to be a rupture between Africa and Europe, and all the international laws being conceived here in the west have to be revisited and changed.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.

I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in American history. The Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and '86. And the same thing can happen here again. Democrats just cannot let it.