Economics Quote by Bertrand Russell

“In a way, finance was even better than art. It was nothing but an expression of potential, of power, of our present moment in…

— Jade Chang

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual should prescribe…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“The most important economy, the only reasonable one, is to make life pleasant for all, because the man who is satisfied with his life…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Finally, there came a time when everything that men had considered as inalienable became an object of exchange, of traffic and could be alienated.…

— Karl Marx

“Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the…

— Stephen Fry

“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing to a…

— Ian McEwan

“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness that is…

— Edmund Burke

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.”

— Timothy Snyder