Economic Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economic Economic system Economic systems Economics Growth Humans
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then… — Gregor Strasser Copy Share Image
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid. — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change,… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind. — Andrew Simms Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
“An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and… — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Business school graduates from the best schools earn large salaries and frequently rise to positions of great power. It would be nice if they… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
