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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. -
Franklin D Roosevelt
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Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine. -
Charles Sawyer
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. -
Ronald Reagan
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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -
Ronald Reagan
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Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. -
E F Schumacher
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. -
Ezra Pound
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. -
John Ruskin
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. -
Seneca
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -
George Bernard Shaw
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery. -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. -
James Thurber
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economics say, ''On the one handÂ… on the other.'' -
Harry S Truman
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An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it. -
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If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion -
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. -
HG Wells
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s. -
Will Rogers
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well. -
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. -
John F Kennedy
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. -
John Maynard Keynes
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