Economic Quotes

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

The majority of Israelis want change, the Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda.

The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.

Content has no economic value unless it's shared and it's acted on.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

I think like a lot of people in this country I want to see a vision. And, again, that would be true of candidates on all levels. It's time to see a clear, bold vision for progressive economic change.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.