Economic Quotes

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.