Economic Quotes - Page 35

• Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Country, Political, Balkans

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• No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, Strong, Rights

  Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, July 1, 2013.

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• Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Rights, Law, Political

  "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.

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• The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly independent, keep an open mind, conduct his/her research objectively and without ideological prejudices, listen to all sides of an argument and seek the opinion of all stakeholders. The essence of an independent expert is not merely his/her expertise - which must be considered a given - but the faculty of thinking outside the box, while rigorously respecting the terms of reference laid down in the resolution establishing the mandate, and observing the code of conduct of rapporteurs.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Independent, Rights, Political

  "Recent Developments & Highlights". Message on the personal website, alfreddezayas.com. March 05, 2018.

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• The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

  Dan Kildee

  Agreement, Economic Integration, World

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Victory, Labor, Labor Movement

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall (1987). “Words on fire: the life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Mean, Men, Disease And Death

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.84, Zed Books

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• My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  War, Stupid, Mean

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• Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

  Gautam Adani

  Opinion, Assumption

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• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  Niger Innis

  Responsibility, Ladders, Facts

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• What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Economy, Sovereignty, Consumers

  "Liberty and Property". Book by Ludwig von Mises, October 15, 1958.

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• People didn't sit and watch television and go, oh, my God, we're failing. So what are they doing in China is, they set up the markets as the test of their own economic management and of this whole theory of economic liberalization.

  Margaret Warner

  People, Management, Failing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

  Eve Ensler

  Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, Devastation

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. These people go out and they spend the money. They go out and they have to get by to everything from paying their mortgage or buying food or just getting by. It has a significant impact on economic growth and the continuation of economic growth.

  Joe Biden

  Impact, People, Growth

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. November 19, 2010.

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• It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

  Rick Santorum

  Control Of Your Life, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, People, Growth

  "Sen. Cruz: IMF provision shouldn't have been in Ukraine bill". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2014.

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• It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

  Al Sharpton

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.

  Michael Pollan

  Reality, People, Track

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.

  Michael Pollan

  Order, Growth, Fundamentals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Taken, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Class, Issues

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.

  Faustino Ballve

  Country, Mean, Government

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• The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Strong, Men, Emotional

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Demand, Facts

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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