Economic Quotes - Page 5

• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Voting, Promise

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• History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Victory, Ethics, Conflict

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

  David Attenborough

  Real, Our Society, Economics

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• Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Lying, Equality, Hype

  "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.

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• Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Growth, Quality, Gone

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• First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

  Martin Feldstein

  Thinking, Firsts, Economics

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• Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Heart, Spirit, Action

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  Garrett Hardin

  Religious, Thinking, Roots

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.

  Andrew Mellon

  Depression, Country, Spring

  "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Great Depression, Convinced

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

  Julian Barnes

  Depression, Spring, Levels

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• Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

  Rick Larsen

  Political, Understanding, Engagement

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• The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

  Norman Granz

  Fashion, Names, People

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• One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.

  Birch Bayh

  Party, People, Challenges

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• In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

  David Korten

  Differences, Economic Globalization, Internationalism

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• According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay terms, I interpret this to mean that people are working much harder, causing economic growth, and they're in danger of spending their money, which is what the recession-hit shops want them to do. But the Bank and the City seem to think this is wrong, and that if people work harder they should be punished by having their mortgages increased.

  Harry Enfield

  Mean, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Oil, Explosions, Britain

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• Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people.

  Dennis Hastert

  Strong, Jobs, People

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• The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

  Eamon de Valera

  Military, Problem, Social

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• Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

  Alfred Marshall

  Differences, Degrees, Kind

  Alfred Marshall (1895). “Principles of Economics”

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• Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

  Omar Bongo

  Political, Today, Objectives

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• In economics, the majority is always wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Majority, Investing

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Growth, One Day, May

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

  George Gilder

  Entrepreneur, Social, Embrace Change

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• Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Politics, Ethics

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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