Economic Quotes - Page 12

• No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Capitalist Economy, Usury, Sin

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

  Fidel Castro

  Order, World, Economics

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• It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.

  Aldo Leopold

  Philosophical, Mean, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.223, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, People, Choices

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• I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Events, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

  Paul Keating

  Want, Majors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Energy, Development

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• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  Vash Young

  Sorry, Thinking, People

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• An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

  David Korten

  Historical, Growth, Causes

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• Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Recovery, Europe

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• The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

  James F. Byrnes

  Agreement, Steps, Economy

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• We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

  Chester Brown

  Behaviour, Stranger, Slow Down

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

  Stephen Bayley

  War, Political, Atmosphere

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• In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Safety, Long

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• In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

  Catherine Ashton

  Rights, People, Democracy

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• America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Military, War, America

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.9, Macmillan

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• It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

  Maria Cantwell

  Wall, Government, Acting

  "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters, does not deserve to be published at all, and is only published for economic considerations which have nothing to do with the real interests of science.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Real, Science, Doe

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• I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

  Jane Campion

  Lessons, Taught, Study

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• Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

  Peter DeFazio

  America, Years, Oil

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• My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.

  Ernie Fletcher

  Opportunity, Kentucky, People

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• But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

  John T. Flynn

  Political, Vitality, Praise

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• We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

  Mike Farrell

  Growth, Earning, Economic Growth

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