Economics Quote by Steven E. Landsburg

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the…

— J. William Fulbright

Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used as an…

— Bari Weiss

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not…

— Saint John Chrysostom

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

— Opal Tometi

Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse,…

— Jeremy Seabrook

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an…

— Bill Mollison

The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

— Khaled Mashal

Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long…

— Nicolae Ceausescu

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all…

— Richard Stallman

Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda,…

— Chrystia Freeland

One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow…

— Walter E. Williams