Monetary Quotes

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

Members of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.

Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

Welfare is monetary methadone.

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.

Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.

We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

I think the reason we might hesitate to pay cash to students for doing well on tests or getting good grades or reading books is that we sense that the monetary payment is an extrinsic reward.

It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

When you're facing the threat of recession, you need to have an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. Pre-Keynesian, Hooverite views are dead everywhere except on 19th Street in Washington.

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

A lot of people would enter restricted sites just to say they can, and then log out. Today, everything related to hacking seems to be for monetary gain.

I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.