Economics Quote by Isabel Paterson Download Open image “The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.” — Isabel Paterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economy Finals Form Military States
The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations,… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
From a very strategic level, I believe the military is part of the solution to better outcomes around the world, but at a higher… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Military might is built on economic might. You need an economic foundation to build a really powerful military. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation for political… — Rosa Brooks Copy Share Image
“Well, it depends which planned economies you mean. There are lots of planned economies―the United States is a planned economy, for example. I mean,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We need a strong, vibrant economy to produce the tax revenue to fund our military. — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise. — Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Copy Share Image
“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share
“But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another, which is true as far as it goes, but open to misinterpretation; for only productive employment does that. If a man were paid to pick up pebbles on the beach and throw them into the ocean, it would… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share
“If Charles F. Kettering or Thomas Alva Edison or Henry Ford had been put to work digging ditches under duress, one could calculate approximately… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of facts by terminology of which the language is capable. Everything about such schools is compulsory, not free; and the true nature of the institution has developed so fully along its own lines with the passage of time that… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Why did the humanitarian philosophy of eighteenth century Europe usher in the Reign of Terror? It did not happen by chance; it followed from… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan 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
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths. — Charles Boustany Copy Share
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the standard of living and level of awareness of life’s pleasures and luxuries available to the educated and new middle classes, in all countries liberated from the “intelligent design” of totalitarian or semi-totalitarian governments that purported to… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality of the categories and concepts employed by that science, is, in fact, the paradoxical product of a long collective history, endlessly reproduced in individual histories, which can be fully accounted for only by historical analysis: it… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share
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