Economic Systems Quotes

• Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

  Pope Francis

  Economic Inequality, Justice, People

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

  Jacque Fresco

  Technology, Today, Debt

  "Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a Better World" edited by Arthur B. Shostak, M.E. Sharpe, (p. 198), February 7, 2003.

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• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Balance, Comeback, Insult

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.15, PM Press

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• The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Truth, Heartless, Economic

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.109, Lexington Books

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• Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.

  Jim Stanford

  Forever, Lasts, Economic

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Reflection, Complaining, Economic

  "Can Greed Be a Good?". www.abc.net.au. June 09, 2010.

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• The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Firsts, Roles

  "Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age". Book by Steven Hill, 2010.

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• Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Satanic, World, Personal Growth

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.2, Penguin

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• The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.

  James Surowiecki

  Reality, People, Want

  "The Downside of Downsizing". www.slate.com. November 07 1997.

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• Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Running, Long, Welcome

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• Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

  Francis Parker Yockey

  World, Economic, Outlook

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.111, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Running, Climate, Treasure

  "Vivienne Westwood's 10 Steps to Climate Revolution". www.permaculture.co.uk. September 12, 2012.

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• But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Rights, Issues

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• The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

  Eric Alterman

  Economic Inequality, Political, Politician

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• There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

  Herbert Read

  Country, Believe, Numbers

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• Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

  Paul Ryan

  Ideas, Done, Helping

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• When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

  Sargent Shriver

  People, Vices, Economic

  "Sargent Shriver: A Candid Portrait". Book by Robert A. Liston (p. 29), 1964.

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• Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Guarantees That

  "Is Michael Moore Pro-Piracy: Illegal Copies of “Capitalism: A Love Story” Inspiring OWS?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

  Marc Faber

  People, Flow, Doe

  "Marc Faber: Not Even Gold Will Save You From What Is Coming" by Matthew Boesler, www.businessinsider.com. March 27, 2013.

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• In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Impact, Western Culture, Half

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

  John Boyd Orr

  Believe, Long, Political

  "Peace!: By the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates : an Anthology, Page 31" by Marek Thee, Unesco Publishing, (p. 162), 1995.

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• An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Political, Growth

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.114, University of Arizona Press

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• And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, People, One Day

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

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• I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."

  Derrick Jensen

  Men, Land, Dimes

  Derrick Jensen (2002). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Civilization, People, Analysis

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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