Conflict Quote by B. R. Ambedkar

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

— B. R. Ambedkar

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Economics is not a morality play.

— Paul Krugman

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

— Mahatma Gandhi

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine…

— Nassau William Senior

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics…

— Hazel Henderson

Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral…

— Arianna Huffington

At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained…

— Thomas Sowell

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would…

— Henry Hazlitt

“...the special interests are almost everybody. Everybody perceives they stand to lose if the economy is allowed to evolve. They are right if their…

— William W. Lewis

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

— Shirley Chisholm