Economically Quotes

#1. If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

Agnes Macphail

#2. The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.

Daniel Yergin

#3. The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

J. Paul Getty

#4. According to Abdul Kalam Azad, 'It is one of the greatest frauds on the people to suggest that religious affinity can unite areas which are geographically, economically, linguistically and culturally different.

Taslima Nasrin

#5. By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

Charles B. Rangel

#7. An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count. Speech, New York City, December 12, 1983

Ronald Reagan

#8. Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

Christian Lous Lange

#9. I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

Ross Kemp

#10. The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Jon Kyl

#11. It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

John Holdren

#12. The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#13. Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

Tony Blair

#14. I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

Ben Bernanke

#15. You're not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You're going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.

Les Wexner

#16. The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

William J. Clinton

#17. We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Henry Ford

#18. Fashion is a humbling topic. Because it is aesthetically complex and economically challenging, the recipe for successful designs is never guaranteed.

Frederic Godart

#19. A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

Helen Fisher

#20. The highly industrialized factory farm is entirely dependent on "purchased inputs." The agrarian farm, well integrated into the natural systems that support it, runs to an economically significant extent on resources and supplies that are free. It

Wendell Berry

#21. We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#22. War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Ron Paul

#23. Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

Haile Selassie

#24. The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#25. Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically

Chuka Umunna

#26. Today it's economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

Daniel H. Pink

#27. Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Jaron Lanier

#28. I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

Lloyd Dorfman

#29. I am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#30. One can be both free and economically secure while leading a totally meaningless and empty existence.

George Lakoff

#31. Corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Arundhati Roy

#32. Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

William Bernbach

#33. If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.

Woody Allen

#34. For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

Ivan Krastev

#35. The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

Bill Gates

#36. If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

Mitch Kapor

#37. Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#38. There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Lucio Tan

#39. Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Ang Lee

#40. Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#41. The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

Madeleine Albright

#42. While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

Ayn Rand

#43. Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

Naomi Wolf

#44. Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Merle Shain

#45. Politics remained archaically unchanged in 1999. America was economically strong but morally complacent. It was a year of evil in many ways - another great year for cartooning.

Michael Ramirez

#46. What most news people don't comprehend is that most of the public are not heavy information seekers - unlike journalists and the smaller portion of the population that is socially, politically and economically active.

Robert G. Picard

#47. Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.

Dina Powell

#48. Russia and China have become two great allies. They'd never be divided as they were during the Cold War Days. Russia and China together cannot be defeated: militarily, economically or morally.

Andre Vltchek

#49. I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Stokely Carmichael

#50. California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

Jim DeMint

#51. What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

Andrew Young

#52. Politically, economically and socially, the Twenty-Teens are a Depression. The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

Bruce Sterling

#53. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

Bill O'Reilly

#54. While Einstein was still a patent clerk he had studied the work of the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach, for whom the goal of science was not to discern the nature of reality, but to describe experimental data, the 'facts', as economically as possible.

Manjit Kumar

#55. The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can't do that.

Milton Friedman

#56. As long as men completely dominate business and political life, as long as women are economically dependent on men, as long as the burden of child care falls wholly on women's shoulders (toppling even the most egalitarian couples), you cannot speak of a liberated female sexuality.

Esther Perel

#57. We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#58. We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
deeper meanings.

Allen Steck

#59. [to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

Jeanne Phillips

#60. Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Aldo Leopold

#61. So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

Kool Keith

#62. I'm very concerned about the nuclear weapons development for Iran and the destabilizing influence it has and they have in that part of the world. And I strongly endorse continued pressure, diplomatically, financially, economically.

Michael Mullen

#63. Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Ludwig Von Mises

#64. The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

Ibn Warraq

#65. In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

Subcomandante Marcos

#66. The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

Margaret Thatcher

#67. We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

Shirley Chisholm

#68. Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.

Barbara Walters

#69. Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages, and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so forth, and they hold the most important positions.

Simone De Beauvoir

#70. It is to the prodigals ... that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.

Simone Weil

#71. You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Shere Hite

#72. The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.

Ali Al-Naimi

#73. the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.

George E. Tinker

#74. The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.

James Lovelock

#75. Considering what is at stake politically, economically and technically for most organizations; usually justifying IT governance deployment based on one viewpoint narrows suitability and expected benefits.

Robert E. Davis

#76. This is a critical juncture in our history. Many young people of color in economically underdeveloped communities are becoming deeply rooted in personal and academic dormancy that interrupts their ability to invest in our fast-moving, ever-changing, increasingly demanding world.

Alfred W. Tatum

#77. We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

John Boyd Orr

#78. What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.

Thomas Sowell

#79. Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

Aaron Levie

#80. When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.

Cory Doctorow

#81. The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Barry McCaffrey

#82. Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

Ludwig Von Mises

#83. You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

Helen Sharman

#84. As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

Xi Jinping

#85. The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

Hans F. Sennholz

#86. In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#87. You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in a place that's been very rough economically. It's a very special thing to be helpful there.

Gerry Schwartz

#88. If you are vulnerable economically, you are vulnerable all along the line.

Clive James

#89. The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

Bill Mollison

#90. Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.

Marcus Samuelsson

#91. The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

Jane Jacobs

#92. The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

Paul Craig Roberts

#93. You were brought up to work - not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut - go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him - whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#94. We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

Andrew Simms

#95. Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"

Yair Lapid

#96. In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

Tina Weymouth

#97. If we don't make sure that Mexico can offer potential investors more input, they'll stop coming to Mexico. They'll go to the United States or other places where it is more economically viable to carry out their projects.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#98. A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.

William Bushnell Stout

#99. The countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.

Noam Chomsky

#100. The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Donald Knuth