Economic system Quotes

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

— Helen Keller

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals

— Peter McWilliams

We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.

— Francois Fillon

This aged economic system is out of date!

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

The normal economic system works itself.

— James Salter

I had an economic system imposed on me.

— Lauryn Hill

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

— Russell Brand

Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

— Olaf Stapledon

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

— Sargent Shriver

“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the…

— Ha-Joon Chang

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“There is a limit where all armaments ain't strong enough to secure current world economic system and practice.”

— Toba Beta

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

— George P. Shultz

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

— Russell Brand

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

— Henry Williamson

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to…

— John T. Flynn

No matter how the financial system is set up, no matter what the economic system is, as long as you have people,…

— Henry Paulson

We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems…

— Wynton Marsalis

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to…

— Nelson Mandela

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a…

— Howard Zinn

China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary…

— Zhang Xin

This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“In such processes the economic system's reactions to a movement of the economy amplify the movement--inflation feeds upon inflation and debt-deflation feeds…

— Anonymous

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with…

— Hervey Allen

It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Called before Congress during the ongoing implosion of Wall Street in October 2008, Greenspan, his upper lip visibly quivering, admitted that he…

— Danielle DiMartino Booth

This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that…

— Bill Bryson

“Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to waste aboard the older ships.…

— Christina Engela

If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of…

— Marilyn Waring

“Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free…

— Andy Grove

“Man cannot relinquish himself or the place in the visible world that belongs to him; he cannot become the slave of things,…

— John Paul II

“But for this, we need a new development model. We have designed an economic system that sees no value in any human…

— Lorenzo Fioramonti

“It is almost inconceivable that so many filmmakers could think of nothing -- be inspired by nothing -- nothing, nothing, nothing --…

— Sohrab Ahmari

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of…

— George Reisman

“continue polluting while trying to offset the damage through some face-saving corporate philanthropy exercises. We would be fools to assume that we…

— Lorenzo Fioramonti

“Our consciousness is a property of our biological being. At the deepest levels of biological and of physical being, all consciousness in…

— Monica Sjöö

“The tide of our national meanness rises incrementally, one brutalizing experience at a time, inside one person at a time in a…

— Joe Bageant

“Kanjorski claims to be repeating an account of events given to him by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Reserve chairman…

— Robert Skidelsky