Economic Quote by Louis O. Kelso Download Open image “Political power without economic power is sterile.” — Louis O. Kelso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economic Economic power Economics Economy Liberalism Political Political power Politics Wisdom
“Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power. — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have nothing in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems. The monetary… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly reach his… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million shareholders in… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will rivet the… — Louis O. Kelso 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