Top 100 Economic System Quotes
#1. We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.
Kenneth Keniston
#2. An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
Edward Abbey
#3. The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
Eric Alterman
#4. Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
Annalee Newitz
#5. Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of " capital ." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.
Werner Sombart
#6. In the United States economic system you can lose big or you can win big. If you lose you wind up wearing a Hefty bag and sleeping in a doorway. If you win you can have sex with Catherine Zeta Jones when you're seventy-five.
Richard Jeni
#7. Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
Camille Paglia
#8. This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#9. If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.
Ramez Naam
#10. A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
Pope John Paul II
#11. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
Olaf Stapledon
#12. There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#14. Eventually became convinced that the Cuban government was completely committed to eliminating all forms of racism. There were no racist institutions, structures, or organizations, and i understood how the Cuban economic system undermined rather than fed racism.
Assata Shakur
#15. In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
Chen-Ning Yang
#16. Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system ... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
Morris Hite
#17. The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#18. Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.
Russell Brand
#19. We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
Stanley Hauerwas
#20. The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
Woodrow Wilson
#21. There is a limit where all armaments ain't strong enough to secure current world economic system and practice.
Toba Beta
#22. I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
Jerry Brown
#23. I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
Mike Lowry
#24. Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
John S. Watson
#25. Under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.
Suzanne La Follette
#26. There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
John Boyd Orr
#27. Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational ... We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.
Jerzy Kosinski
#28. A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.
Paul Kriwaczek
#29. There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.
Herbert Read
#30. It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
Vladimir Putin
#31. It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
Lars Peter Hansen
#32. Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Raoul Vaneigem
#33. Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#34. The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has ended up homogenizing humanity.
Niall Ferguson
#35. An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.
John Sulston
#36. There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.
John O'Toole
#37. To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
Vaclav Klaus
#38. Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence
at least in the United States of America
represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics.
Robert David Steele
#39. The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne Westwood
#40. It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#41. Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.
Arjuna Ardagh
#42. The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.
Ludwig Von Mises
#44. Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
Henry Williamson
#45. The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.
David Suzuki
#46. I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people ... . As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.
Frank Marshall Davis
#47. Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.
Herb Kohl
#48. the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the market system would be accompanied by a change in the organization of society itself. All along the line, human society had become an accessory of the economic system.
Karl Polanyi
#49. All of them were arrayed against the usual resistance of entrenched power and privilege and the economic system encoding these same, but now with the food panic reminding everyone that mass death was a distinct possibility, some progress was possible, for
Kim Stanley Robinson
#50. 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
#51. I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.
Pope Francis
#52. Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.
Derrick Jensen
#53. I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.
Warren Buffett
#54. But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.
Clarence Thomas
#55. Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy ... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.
Vaclav Havel
#56. The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.
Noam Chomsky
#57. Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.
Ludwig Von Mises
#58. Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.
Murray Rothbard
#59. Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.
Michael Ignatieff
#60. If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
Gregor Strasser
#61. I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
Paul Dirac
#62. The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
Jacques Delors
#63. That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
Thomas Woods
#64. The great flaw in the American economic system has finally been revealed: an unrealistic faith in the power of prosperity rather than in the ultimate power and benevolence of God.
Billy Graham
#65. If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
Simon Mainwaring
#66. Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
Jacque Fresco
#67. Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul Ryan
#68. Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.
Paul Samuelson
#69. When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.
Marc Faber
#70. I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.
Myles Munroe
#71. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.
Ha-Joon Chang
#72. I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.
Jim Webb
#73. The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
Kwame Nkrumah
#74. Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.
Ha-Joon Chang
#75. America ... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
Murray Kempton
#76. Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
Sarah Churchwell
#77. Without adjustments to our economic system and regulatory policies, we may be in for an extended period of social turmoil.
Jerry Kaplan
#78. There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.
Frederick Lenz
#79. Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
John T. Flynn
#80. The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
James Surowiecki
#81. No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.
Sheldon Richman
#82. What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.
Ronald Coase
#83. Just like modern economic system, our relationships follow typical profit & loss mechanism where people are nothing more than useful tools.
Saurabh Sharma
#84. Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals
Peter McWilliams
#85. You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#87. The account of how a form of American slavery persisted into the twentieth century, embraced by the U.S. economic system and abided at all levels of government, offered a concrete answer to that fear for the first time.
Douglas A. Blackmon
#88. You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money ... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.
Frances Moore Lappe
#89. The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system . We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.
Donella Meadows
#90. There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.
Herbert Hoover
#91. It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#92. The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness.
Adrienne Rich
#93. Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Hervey Allen
#94. Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'
Martha Beck
#95. This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our society, from private prisons to Fox News. What I'm arguing is that, in fact, what we've been told is a lie.
Naomi Klein
#96. Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.
Herbert Hoover
#97. If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool of people working at the worst jobs and the lowest paid jobs. Once you have a system like that, then the most likely people to be victims of that are people of color.
Howard Zinn
#98. 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
#99. Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else.
Ronald Reagan
#100. Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
Michel Chossudovsky
