Economy Quotes

Economists are surgeons who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.

Nicolas Chamfort

If the terriers and barriffs (sic) are torn down, this economy will grow.

George Walker Bush

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

Joel Conrad Bakan

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

Paul Alexander Baran

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

Paul Alexander Baran

This is my chance to help this lady put some money in her pocket. Let me explain how the economy works. When you spend money to buy food it helps this lady's business. It makes it more likely somebody is going to find work. So instead of asking questions, answer mine: are you going to buy some food?

George Walker Bush

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

Michel Chossudovsky

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics")

Michel Chossudovsky

A man is not really a true man until he owns his own home, and they that own their homes are made more honorable and honest and pure, true and economical and careful, by owning the home.

Russell H. Conwell

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

Joel Conrad Bakan

The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

Joel Conrad Bakan

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

George Walker Bush

It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien

...the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

Richard Cobden