(1643 quotes found)
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.”
Paul Heyne
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Thomas Sowell
“Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis”
Robert Heilbroner
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.”
“We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible”
Indira Gandhi
“Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions”
Barry Asmus
“History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.”
B. R. Ambedkar
“If ignorance paid dividends most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics”
Luther H. Hodges
