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Economy Quote #1

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Economy Quote #2

- and the mocking realization that money was just colorful crumpled paper, hardly different from a candy wrapper, the market itself little more than a casino.
Paul Theroux
Economy Quote #3

New Rule: Republicans must stop pitting the American people against the government. Last week, we heard a speech from Republican leader Bobby Jindal--and he began it with the story that every immigrant tells about going to an American grocery store for the first time and being overwhelmed with the endless variety on the shelves. And this was just a 7-Eleven--wait till he sees a Safeway. The thing is, that endless varietyexists only because Americans pay taxes to a government, which maintains roads, irrigates fields, oversees the electrical grid, and everything else that enables the modern American supermarket to carry forty-seven varieties of frozen breakfast pastry.
Of course, it's easy to tear government down--Ronald Reagan used to say the nine most terrifying words in the Englishlanguage were I'm from the government and I'm here to help. But that was before I'm Sarah Palin, now show me the launch codes.
The stimulus package was attacked as typical tax and spend--like repairing bridges is left-wing stuff. There the liberals go again, always wanting to get across the river. Folks, the people are the government--the first responders who put out fires--that's your government. The ranger who shoos pedophiles out of the park restroom, the postman who delivers your porn.
How stupid is it when people say, That's all we need: the federal government telling Detroit how to make cars or Wells Fargo how to run a bank. You want them to look like the post office?
You mean the place that takes a note that's in my hand in L.A. on Monday and gives it to my sister in New Jersey on Wednesday, for 44 cents? Let me be the first to say, I would be thrilled if America's health-care system was anywhere near as functional as the post office.
Truth is, recent years have made me much more wary of government stepping aside and letting unregulated private enterprise run things it plainly is too greedy to trust with. Like Wall Street. Like rebuilding Iraq.
Like the way Republicans always frame the health-care debate by saying, Health-care decisions should be made by doctors and patients, not government bureaucrats, leaving out the fact that health-care decisions aren't made by doctors, patients, or bureaucrats; they're made by insurance companies. Which are a lot like hospital gowns--chances are your gas isn't covered.
Bill Maher
Economy Quote #4

[I]m Internet [ist] Aufmerksamkeit eine echte Ware geworden, die sich bereits im Moment ihrer Entstehung vermarkten lässt.
Sascha Lobo
Economy Quote #5

[V]orrangiges Ziel [der Unternehmen] ist nicht in erster Linie Effizienz, sondern Kontrolle.
Sascha Lobo
Economy Quote #6

[W]enn der Austausch [Handel] nicht in Liebe und freundlicher Gerechtigkeit stattfindet, wird er bloß einige zur Gier und andere zum Hunger führen.
Kahlil Gibran
Economy Quote #7

¿Qué decir de la gratitud que América Latina debe a la Coca-Cola, que cobra carísimas licencias industriales para proporcionarles una pasta que se disuelve en agua y se mezcla con azúcar y gas?
Eduardo Galeano
Economy Quote #8

A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.
Ryan Lilly
Economy Quote #9

A brick could help me hold down a job. Hey, in an economy as bad as this, every little bit helps.
Jarod Kintz
Economy Quote #10

A job is like a politician struggling in the water. Be sure you hold it down.
Jarod Kintz
Economy Quote #11

A long decade ago economic growth was the reigning fashion of political economy. It was simultaneously the hottest subject of economic theory and research, a slogan eagerly claimed by politicians of all stripes, and a serious objective of the policies of governments. The climate of opinion has changed dramatically. Disillusioned critics indict both economic science and economic policy for blind obeisance to aggregate material progress, and for neglect of its costly side effects. Growth, it is charged, distorts national priorities, worsens the distribution of income, and irreparably damages the environment. Paul Erlich speaks for a multitude when he says, We must acquire a life style which has as its goal maximum freedom and happiness for the individual, not a maximum Gross National Product. [in Nordhaus, William D. and James Tobin., Is growth obsolete? Economic Research: Retrospect and Prospect Vol 5: Economic Growth. Nber, 1972. 1-80]
James Tobin
Economy Quote #12

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character
Thomas Jefferson
Economy Quote #13

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine.

This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots its ultimate goal -- the liberation of humanity from material cares -- and becomes an obsessive image hanging over the present. Between love and a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have made their choice and prefer the garbage disposal. A complete and sudden change of spirit has become essential, by bringing to light forgotten desires and creating entirely new ones. And by an intensive propaganda in favor of these desires.

Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Tom McDonough
Economy Quote #14

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity and a revival of business which might otherwise have taken place.
William Howard Taft
Economy Quote #15

A problem with global reasons cannot effectively be met with local measures.
Carl Grip
Economy Quote #16

A record number of Americans need jobs. Hey, let’s start WWIII and create full employment for all. I should start selling coffins. Buy yours today before it’s too late.
Jarod Kintz
Economy Quote #17

Amanece en México. Millones de ciudadanos se preparan para otra ardua jornada laboral. Un controlados aéreo de la torre del Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez de la Ciudad de México entrega su turno después de una noche más de eficaz trabajo cumplido. Un agricultor del valle de Culiacán, granero de México, prepara su sistema de riego con tecnología de punta. Una ingeniera atómica controla impolutamente los desechos de uranio altamente enriquecidos de la central nuclear de Laguna Verde. Un empresario de Monterrey termina una conference call con sus socios del Lejano Oriente. En un hotel del Caribe, la recepcionista despierta puntualmente a los turistas de las habitaciones que así se lo han pedido. Los hospitales trabajan. Las escuelas inician labores. La basura se recoge. El agua corre por las cañerías. La luz se enciende. Los teatros dan la tercera llamada. En el campo, millones de manos ya están sobre el surco y los empleados de la periferia de las grandes ciudades se desplazan hacia sus centros de trabajo. Una monumental energía humana echa a andar un día más la undécima potencia económica del planeta.
Ricardo Cayuela Gally
Economy Quote #18

Americans believe that they still live in the land of opportunity - the country that offers the greatest chance of economic advancement. But this is no longer the case.
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Economy Quote #19

An economy funded by subsidy is no economy in an ideal sense.
Tony Osborg
Economy Quote #20

Annual state spending alone for prison facilities is now estimated at about $52 to $62 billion, the bulk of which is spent building new facilities; operating and maintaining more prisons; providing food and health care for prisoners; and administration and staff salaries and benefits.
Christopher Zoukis
Economy Quote #21

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.
William Easterly
Economy Quote #22

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.
Leon Trotsky
Economy Quote #23

As a rule of thumb, hitchhiking is no fun. If you’re going to stand around waiting to move, you may as well get paid to hold a pawnshop sign.
Jarod Kintz
Economy Quote #24

As the war progresses, and as population increases to an even more intolerable level stretching resources to impossible lengths, the strong will begin fighting for their very survival. That’s what we’re seeing right now. Society will become more and more stratified into the people who aren’t buying the bullshit in society and those who blindly follow where they are led. Satanists, freethinkers, are a burgeoning minority cause. We have an illness that needs to be recognized just like alcoholism, handicaps, addictive behaviors and AIDS. We suffer from a disease called independence — a pathological aversion to regimentation and institutionalism — which prevents us from getting ‘regular’ jobs and living a ‘normal’ life.
Anton Szandor LaVey
Economy Quote #25

Banking doesn’t involve fraud, banking IS fraud.
(from video by Paul Grignon done for United Financial Consumers (2002) )
(Added to goodreads by Mike Tobin)
Tim Madden
Economy Quote #26

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan
Economy Quote #27

Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Economy Quote #28

Between the poorest 50 percent (who own 5 percent of total wealth, or an average of 20,000 euros each in the example [Europe 2010]) and the richest 10 percent (who own 60 percent of total wealth, or an average of 1.2 million euros each) lies the middle 40 percent: this “middle class of wealth” owns 35 percent of total national wealth, which means that their average net wealth is fairly close to the average for society as a whole—in the example, it comes to exactly 175,000 euros per adult.
Thomas Piketty
Economy Quote #29

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
Rohinton Mistry
Economy Quote #30

But, as in the rest of Galilee, the profits firm this increase in the means of production disproportionately benefited the large landowners and moneylenders who resided outside Capernaum: the wealthy priests in Judea and new urban elite in Sepphoris and Tiberias. The majority of Capernaum's residents had been left behind by the new Galilean economy. It would be these people whom Jesus would specifically target - those who found themselves cast to the fingers of society, whose lives had been disrupted by the rapid social and economic shifts taking place throughout Galilee.
Reza Aslan

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