Economic Quotes - Page 22

• The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Struggle, Effectiveness, Useless

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic and social system in order to make it a more egalitarian society and do away with homelessness and hunger and clean up the environment. But these people have no voice. They have no way of expressing themselves. Elections give them no way of expressing themselves.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Believe, Order

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 10, 2001.

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• Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

  Lionel Trilling

  Christian, Fashion, Mean

  "Matthew Arnold". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1949.

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• In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Running, Long, Facts

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• This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Done, Planning, Individual

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by Friedrich Hayek, American Economic Review, September 1945.

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• A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Lying, Greatness, Empires

  Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.108, W. W. Norton & Company

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• [M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their asses on the street, thereby having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for somebody else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best - if able to get a "good" job - co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.

  Valerie Solanas

  Jobs, Sex, Animal

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Struggle, Home

  The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.

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• In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Development, Form, Arise

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.

  Warren Farrell

  Gay, Men, Black

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future, because China, Germany - they're making these [clean energy] investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries. I expect those new energy sources to be built right here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Men, Role Models

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.

  James Callaghan

  Country, Powerful, Europe

  Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. December 15, 1960.

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• When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.

  James Callaghan

  Causes, Unemployment, Superficial

  James Callaghan (1987). “Time and chance”, HarperCollins

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• Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?

  Stewart Brand

  Block, House, Greek

  "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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• I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Years, Political, Principles

  Letter to John Spencer on February 19, 1900. "CB: a Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman". Book by John Wilson, p. 326, 1973.

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• Framework, (...) addiction to female beauty and sex; deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return; (.

  Warren Farrell

  Beautiful, Sex, Men

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• We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Excellence, World

  Boston Globe, November 16, 2005.

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• My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

  Gordon Brown

  Government, Taxation, Golden

  Hansard, 6 ser., vol. 297 col. 304, July 2, 1997.

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• Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

  Valerie Solanas

  Opportunity, Our Society, Leisure

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.

  Wesley Clark

  Technology, Research And Development, Organization

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

  Thomas Frank

  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.

  Thomas Frank

  Real, War, Party

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, April 1, 2007.

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• America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."

  Alberto Gonzales

  Children, Military, Believe

  Remarks at his installation as Attorney General, www.justice.gov. February 14, 2005.

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• What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Class, Political, Statistics

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