Quotes about Economics

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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. — Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. — Wendell Berry
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Murray N. Rothbard
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming — Bertrand Russell
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all. — Rick Aster, Fear of Nothing
There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They — Stefan Molyneux
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad — Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Moments are the elements of profit — Karl Marx, Capital, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as ma — David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality — Rashedur Ryan Rahman
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are riskin — Rose Wilder Lane
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a s — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt — Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb
The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that t — M. Northrup Buechner, Objective Economics: Ayn Rand's philosophy changes everything about economics
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus — Audre Lorde
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY — Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly. — Robert W. Cox
An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it — Bianca Baker