Economic Quotes - Page 37

• What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Pride, Blood, Greed

  Sylvia Thompson (1926). “The Hounds of Spring”, Boston : Little, Brown

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or the success of the feminist movement, but rather as a profound evolutionary response to a pervasive cultural crisis. Feminine principles are entering the public realm because we can no longer afford to restrict them to the private domestic sphere, nor allow a public culture obsessed with Warrior values to control human destiny if we are to survive.

  Sally Helgesen

  Women, Divorce, Warrior

  11 Copy quote

• The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

  Hilda Scott

  Political, Economics

  Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.

  Eileen Simpson

  Religious, Educational, Home

  6 Copy quote

• I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.

  Monica Crowley

  Responsibility, Warrior, Rallying Cry

  "What The (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior's Guide To The Great American Comeback". Interview with Jamie Glazov, www.frontpagemag.com. June 20, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Global Warming, Argument

  "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.

  Ken Caldeira

  Issues, Risk, Growth

  5 Copy quote

• We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Business, Thinking, Growth

  "Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'". www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Fabric

  4 Copy quote

• I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Optimistic, Mean

  7 Copy quote

• The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs. The state of the science, the social and economic impacts, and the appropriate strategies all are crucial components to a global resolution. The stakes here are very high; the consequences, very significant.

  George H. W. Bush

  Impact, Community, Together

  8 Copy quote

• ...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Blow, Government, Order

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.140, Harriman House Limited

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Book, Agreement

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, 1980.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and exports, and even the level of economic activity. So it is hard for any government to ignore large swings in its exchange rate.

  Paul Volcker

  Government, Swings, Important

  Paul A. Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten (1992). “Changing fortunes: the world's money and the threat to American leadership”, Crown

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Two, People

  4 Copy quote

• ...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

  Ben Bernanke

  Goal, Investing, Levels

  4 Copy quote

• Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, Law

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, World, Cold

  25 Copy quote

• We must build an agenda for speedy yet sustainable economic growth that is inclusive of all, is respectful of individuals, responsive to innovation and responsible towards the future generations.

  Narendra Modi

  Innovation, Growth, India

  4 Copy quote

• Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Empowerment, Important

  4 Copy quote

• So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.

  Naomi Klein

  Economic Models, Justice, Climate

  7 Copy quote

• This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

  Christiana Figueres

  Firsts, Tasks, Development

  55 Copy quote

• In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Individual Happiness, Iron

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

  Joan Robinson

  Views, Hats, Rabbits

  23 Copy quote

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Communist, Disaster

  53 Copy quote