Economic Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

  Steven Rattner

  Economic Inequality, Presidential, Political

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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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• There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

  Sir John Richard Hicks

  Games, Intellectual, Branches

  1979 Causality in Economics.

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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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• 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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• 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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• To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Responsibility, Men

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Common Sense, Facts

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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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• The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.

  Timothy Geithner

  Hurt, Recovery, Commitment

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Lying, Fall

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• In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Order, Effort

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• The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Ideas, Decision, Brotherhood

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• India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.

  Henry Paulson

  Religious, Lying, Commitment

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• Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.

  Walther Rathenau

  Destiny, Men, Light

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• Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

  Steven Rattner

  Tough Economic Times, Ideas, Extremes

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• If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.

  Bob Torres

  Real, Believe, Roots

  Bob Torres (2007). “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights”, p.7, AK Press

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• The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Powerful, America

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

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• The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

  George Stigler

  Competition, Challenges, Citizens

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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