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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested… — B R Ambedkar
Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a… — Ian Macfarlane
Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in… — Murray Rothbard
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. — B R Ambedkar
With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in… — Adolf Hitler
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… — Vita Sackville-West
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
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
Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95. — Patrick Dempsey
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by… — Peter Drucker
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell… — Ludwig von Mises
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics — Ludwig von Mises
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian. — Murray Rothbard
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn… — Llewellyn Rockwell
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous… — Edwin Land
What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment. — Kenneth E. Boulding
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin. — Leif Johansson
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. — Clement Mok
What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources. — John Prescott
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. — Marty Allen
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us… — Antonio Damasio

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