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To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men! — Arnold Schwarzenegger
...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon… — Stephen Batchelor
When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises the lives of millions of… — Simon Mainwaring
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to… — Simone Weil
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. — Raoul Vaneigem
I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales. — Ronald Reagan
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic… — Stephen Hawking
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a… — E F Schumacher
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's… — William J. Clinton
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also… — Milton Friedman
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown… — Ludwig von Mises
When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the… — Ludwig von Mises
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. — Ludwig von Mises
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at… — Ludwig von Mises
To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire… — Ludwig von Mises
The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have… — Ludwig von Mises
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable… — Ludwig von Mises
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions… — Ludwig von Mises
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome… — Ludwig von Mises
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. — Ludwig von Mises
The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. — Ludwig von Mises
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about… — Ludwig von Mises
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell

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