Economic Quotes

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

It is important for the club to find a balance in a world driven by economic and political needs. This club usually does that [on leaving Liverpool]

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

Being listed by Facebook was like being recognized by a global economic superpower. It has enormous impact.

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

Casey Anthony was found not guilty. This means that President Obama’s economic team is only the second-most clueless group in America.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.

The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

What we don't need today is more turmoil, more upheaval and more economic chaos.

When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed.

Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital