Let us leave in suspension such debates about the economic…

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

— Fabrizio Moreira

The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and…

— Nouriel Roubini

There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in the west,…

— Naomi Oreskes

I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction…

— Naomi Oreskes

It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or…

— Antonin Scalia

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it…

— Sebastian Junger

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Never counted in the "costs" of war are the dead birds, the charred animals the murdered fish, incinerated insects, poisoned water sources, destroyed vegetation.…

— Arundhati Roy

Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The threat of nuclear holocaust fosters pacifism; when pacifism spreads, war recedes and trade flourishes; and trade increases both the profits of peace and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

— Barack Obama

There's all these costs of war, and they're huge and long-lasting. It's not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay…

— Debra Granik

“The president kept returning also to the matter of cost. He observed that the cost of the additional troops McChrystal was requesting would be…

— Robert M. Gates

One of the real costs of the war is that our security is actually less than it otherwise would have been - ironic, since…

— Joseph Stiglitz

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs…

— Earl Blumenauer