Economics Quote by Bernard Connolly

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely

“in the international arena, national power is a direct result of economic might.”

— Arthur R. Kroeber

“Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.”

— Ronald Wright

“The biggest delusion of the oligarch is the thought that the authority wealth offers will outlive the society that gave it to them.”

— Anonymous

“The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.”

— John Adams

“The dictator has to keep the economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it.”

— Tim Harford

“The mechanics of our economy, once you understand them, are both shocking and tempting. Unchecked power has the the same effect.”

— M.B. Watson

“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.”

— Adam Nevill

“I wanted to believe that as generations turned over, those coming into economic and political power would build a different, better, more expansive world,…

— Anna Wiener

“People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.”

— Wendell Berry

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”

— Socrates

“He who is given power will inevitably become an oppressor and exploiter of society.”

— Mikhail Bakunin