Best 694 quotes in «economic quotes» category

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 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 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 enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

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

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

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

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

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.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

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.

Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as is his wont, and essentially linked the call to Taiwan with a whole series of things he doesn't like about Chinese economic and foreign policies and implied that the U.S. views of the status of Taiwan are now up for negotiation, that he wants them to be part of a broader negotiation with China about a whole series of economic and foreign policy issues. So, we just don't really know what exactly they're planing to do with this.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.

Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

Money is economic power.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.

Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.

Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climatically; they're poor; and there's a limit to what the government can do there without wasting a lot of resources. Developing the south east may mean decamping a large part of its population. But the thing that will improve the lot of the Kurds more than anything else will be the stabilization of Iraq in the first place, because then the Turkish southeast stops being a dead end. It can become a bridge, with trade flowing in both directions.

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future