Economic Quotes - Page 7

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.

Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.