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3293 Economic quotes by 1725 unique authors
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The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations…
— Carol Bellamy
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Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from…
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides…
— Iris Chang
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.…
— E. O. Wilson
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While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also…
— Dalia Mogahed
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The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds…
— Eli Broad
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Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
— Noam Chomsky
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After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
— John F. Kennedy
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Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its…
— Cesar Chavez
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Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately…
— Barack Obama
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It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology…
— Malcolm X
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The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will…
— Malcolm X
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly…
— Albert Einstein
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There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into…
— Winston Churchill
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I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory…
— Rick Perry
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But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of…
— John Abizaid
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If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the…
— Henry A. Wallace
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Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm…
— Naomi Wolf
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Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of…
— Steve Kerr
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not…
— E. O. Wilson
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