Economic quotes
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"All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence."
"Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust."
"Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word."
"Change the economic base and you will change human beings."
"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."
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"The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless."
"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
"Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love."
"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
"Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy."
"I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions."
"Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant."
"In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved."
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
"British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,."
"I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers."
"There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States."
"Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management"
"What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom."
"Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution."
"Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations."
"We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible"
"As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist"
"The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals."
"Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?"
