Business Quote by C. Wright Mills

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

— John Adams

“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.”

— James M. Buchanan

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

— Lester Thurow

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

— Arabella Weir

One cannot have economic growth without security.

— John Bruton

Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

— Mark Carney

Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically…

— Hilaire Belloc

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a…

— Anonymous

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come…

— Aristotle

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

— Yasheng Huang