Quotes about Economics

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.