Economics Quotes · Page 123

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

— Orrin Woodward

Vermont farmers are contributing to our economy and keeping our landscape beautiful and productive.

— Phil Scott

“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“if you want an economic chart that stops you from sleeping you should start with the elephant.”

— Edward Luce

As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.

— Loretta Napoleoni

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

— Jon Ronson

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing…

— Dora Russell

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

— Thomas Sowell

Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by…

— Ralph Raico

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler…

— Paula Nelson

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to…

— Esther Dyson

Therefore, let me reiterate that the rate should not meet the interests of a specific group or one or two groups, it…

— Vladimir Putin

Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to…

— Gloria Steinem

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic…

— Geoff Mulgan

What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the…

— Jeff Merkley

Black people have been marginalized and kept away from the economics of this country. I think people are starting to understand that…

— The D.O.C

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife…

— C. S. Lewis

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion.…

— Frederic Bastiat

“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks…

— G. Edward Griffin

“We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is…

— Kathleen Dean Moore

“The South African state created a dual economy, preventing 80 percent of the population from taking part in skilled occupations, commercial farming,…

— Daron Acemoğlu

The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you…

— Winona LaDuke

“But so, too, can unproductive paths persist. The increasing returns characteristic of an initial set of institutions that provide disincentives to productive…

— Douglass C. North

“Thought Leadership “The new economics for industry, government, education” Book by W. Edwards Deming “In God we trust. All others must bring…

— W. Edwards Deming

The language of economics is seldom limpid, but in H Street they usually manage to remove from it the very last flickering…

— Jan Morris

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

— Al Nichol

We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to…

— Martin O'Malley

Companies that understand their links with the communities they operate in, and their impact on the environment, are most likely to prosper…

— Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

— Will Rogers

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

— Anonymous

Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.

— Paul Craig Roberts

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

— Leon Trotsky

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

— Woodrow Wilson

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

— Len Deighton

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

— Paul Samuelson

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

— John Maynard Keynes

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What…

— Frank Lowy

“All humans have time at their disposal irrespective of economic status, race or class”

— Sunday Adelaja

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“If war is gods way of teaching geography to Americans, then recession is his way of teaching little economics to everyone”

— Raj Patel