Government intervention Quote by Tony Judt

“an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.”

— Charles River Editors

“What action could not do, diplomacy might accomplish. Or, failing that, money.”

— Claudia Gray

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.”

— Toba Beta

“It was the price of fighting a war during peacetime”

— C.W. Lemoine

“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.”

— Pankaj Mishra

“...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“I believe the crisis started when we started prioritizing redistribution of wealth instead of its creation.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“War...strengthened the position of the armament industries...to a point...that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations...war barbarised…

— Doris Lessing

“Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)”

— Eknath Easwaran

“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as…

— William Struse