Economic Quotes - Page 2

• Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

  Crystal Eastman

  Motherhood, Equality, Roots

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Growth, Lines, Economy

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• The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

  Julian Simon

  People, Political, World

  Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.495, Princeton University Press

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• Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.

  Abraham Pais

  Liars, Believe, Writing

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• I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

  David Attenborough

  Advantage, Bases, Huge

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• We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Views, Umpires, Justice

  "Individualism: True and False". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1945.

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• Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Stupid, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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• Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Freedom, Political, Politics

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

  Oliver Stone

  Tough Economic Times, People, Interesting

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• I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

  Gale Norton

  Thinking, Needs, Today

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• The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Heart, Religion

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Mean, Progress, Economics

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003). “Ten Great Economists”, p.77, Routledge

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• If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thoughtful, Past, Common Sense

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental Quality, Growth, Strategy

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history

  Gavin Newsom

  San Francisco, Intense

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• Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Men, Law

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.124, 北戴河出版

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• Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Retirement, America, Foundation

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• I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, Rooms, Faces

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• Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Injustice, Social

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.337, New Word City

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• I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

  Emma Bonino

  Thinking, Issues, Liberty

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• Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

  Dave Reichert

  Growth, Immigration, Components

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• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

  Booker T. Washington

  Education, Race, Independence

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• The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Truth Is

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• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Support, Immigration, Reform

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