Economic Systems Quotes

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The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent… — Eric Alterman
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. — Gloria Steinem
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic… — Susan Sontag
We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly… — Adolf Hitler
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. — Raoul Vaneigem
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question… — R. Buckminster Fuller
You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another. — Mikhail Gorbachev
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government.… — Robert Muller
I would be remiss, as a scientist who studied this, if I didn't mention the following two things: The first is that, most importantly, we… — John Miller
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice… — Pope Francis
If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment… — Marilyn Waring
I had an economic system imposed on me. — Lauryn Hill
And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a… — Bill O'Reilly
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. — Arthur C. Clarke
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to… — Will Durant
I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain… — Frank Marshall Davis
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders… — Roger Babson
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than… — Paul Hawken

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