Economic Quotes - Page 32

• Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Impact, Political

  Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

  "Understanding the Religious Reich or The American and World-Wide Threat of Fundamentalism" by Isaac Bonewits, Version 2.6, www.neopagan.net. 1990.

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• Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.

  Vladimir Putin

  Honesty, Military, Responsibility

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.

  Paul Krugman

  Taken, Successful, Past

  "Enemies of the WTO", Slate Magazine, November 24, 1999.

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• Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Keys, Absurd

  "Art since 1940, strategies of being". Book by Jonathan Fineberg, copyright Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995.

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• If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Order, Doe

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.234, University of Chicago Press

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• The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Issues, Humanity

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Ideal And Progress”, p.23, Read Books Ltd

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• These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions.

  Bob DuPuy

  Creativity, Cities, Issues

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• If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

  Zhou Shengxian

  Effort, Growth, Environmental

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• The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing," Fukuyama argued, "the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Struggle, Government, Ideas

  "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order". Book by Samuel P. Huntington. Chapter 1: "The New Era in World Politics," § 3: "Other Worlds?," p. 31, 1996.

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• Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Military, Fall, Empires

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.9, Basic Books

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• It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Environment, Currents, Shows

  "Austerity has never worked" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Important, Littles, Facts

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 1), 1952.

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• It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.

  Ed Schultz

  Years, Two, Expansion

  Ed Schultz (2009). “Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.

  Merold Westphal

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Passion

  Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press

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• Culture changes with economic development.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Culture, Development, Culture Change

  "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, 2008.

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• Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

  Zhou Shengxian

  Stopping, Development, Facts

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• The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Clever, Miracle, Incentives

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

  Joan Robinson

  Textbooks, Fiction, Normal

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.3, Academic Press

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• Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.

  Werner Sombart

  Form, Bookkeeping, Capitalism

  "Der moderne Kapitalismus". Book by Werner Sombart, 2006.

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• The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Running, Character, Long

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.161, Basic Books

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• He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Government, Justice, Purpose

  Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 22, 2004.

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• Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Rich Countries, Socialism

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century

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• States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

  John Mearsheimer

  Military, Foundation, Care

  "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.

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• Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Self, Causes, Analysis

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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