Economic Quotes

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.

Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.