Economic systems 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This aged economic system is out of date!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

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

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

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

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers…

— Vaclav Klaus

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

— Francis Parker Yockey

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

— Derrick Jensen

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

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

— Hervey Allen

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic…

— Jean Chretien

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

— Bill Bryson

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

— Marilyn Waring

Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is…

— Howard Nemerov

The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the…

— Tariq Ramadan

It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our…

— Alan Watts

A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing…

— John Holdren

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

— Anonymous

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

— David Suzuki

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

— Felix Frankfurter

Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.

— Jim Stanford

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

— Paul Ryan

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

— Edward Abbey

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

— Vivienne Westwood

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

— P. J. O'Rourke