Quotes About Economics Class

#1. I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

Molly Quinn

#2. Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

James Hillman

#3. Unforgiveness is a poison you drink hoping someone else will die.

Linda White

#4. You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.

J.S.B. Morse

#5. The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.

Ellen Cushing

#6. We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

Barack Obama

#7. I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

James Hillman

#8. Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

Vir Das

#9. Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

Christopher Lasch

#10. Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.

Nancy Isenberg

#11. Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline

Vinod Rai

#12. One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.

Alain De Benoist

#13. One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

Joan Robinson

#14. I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

Sheila Heti

#15. Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.

Majid Kazmi

#16. Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

Martin O'Malley

#17. You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese..

Neil Gaiman

#18. There was nothing so special about First Class, apart from the amount of uncalled for, almost disturbing, attention I got from the various six-feet tall heavily made up air hostesses, that I would come back for more given the steep price tag.

Vann Chow

#19. That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

Daryl Hannah

#20. There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Laini Taylor

#21. If we try to run the economy for the benefit of a single group or class, we shall injure or destroy all groups, including the members of the very class for whose benefit we have been trying to run it. We must run the economy for everybody

Henry Hazlitt

#22. Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.

Bernie Sanders

#23. I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you.' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.

Ronda Rousey

#24. There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

Warren Buffett

#25. We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.

Teri Hatcher

#26. More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.

Nancy Isenberg

#27. The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.

Anthony M. Platt

#28. Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.'

Charley Reese

#29. Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

Milton Friedman

#30. People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as 'parasites' fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.

Jason Read

#31. What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated.

Joan Didion

#32. Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

Eric Alterman

#33. If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Kevin Spacey

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

August Strindberg

#35. I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

Barack Obama