Best 694 quotes in «economic quotes» category

Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant decentralization because knowledge is not concentrated anywhere. It's based on motivation, and so these are the advantages of, say, the cautious case for capitalism, that the market system is efficient.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

I am not confident that Europe can make it.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.