Economic Quotes

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.

From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.

Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

Not enough is a spiritual state, not an economic one.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.