War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research…

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a…

— Alex Campbell

“When armies benefit from being perceived as necessary, and war provides a means of gaining prestige and leverage over the government,” said Loaf. “Then…

— Orson Scott Card

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty…

— C. E. M. Joad

“What more do they want? She asks this seriously, as if there's a real conversion factor between information and lives. Well, strange to say,…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The…

— Thomas Pynchon

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very…

— Milton Friedman

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

— P. Chidambaram

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of…

— Douglass North

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

— Farah Diba

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

— Hilda Scott

“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political…

— H.J. Haskell

“The hope is that a fundamental flaw in our current political economy may be surmounted, without confronting any serious political–economic questions. Psychology is very…

— William Davies

When you pay for something, it's not just buying something from the store. You are actually supporting the political and economic structures that provide…

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

We live in a time when all elites, whether on the left or the right, believe in rigid rules that say there is no…

— Adam Curtis

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

— David Suzuki