Economic Quotes

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Real freedom must include economic security.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.