Top 1200 Politics And Economics Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.

Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad.

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.

These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.

There's only one thing more embarrassing than the celebrities talking about politics; and that's politicians talking about anything other than politics.

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It simply means that as we do so we must not let the rules of power displace the command to love.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

Christians are to be salt and light in everything they do, be it in their church, in their business, in their school, or in their government.... If you think "preaching the Gospel" is impor­tant like I do, then you ought to think politics is important too. Why? Because politics and law affects your ability to preach the Gospel!

There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.

My parents are very proud that I was a 'Blue Peter' presenter and of me going to Cambridge to do economics.

When I am skating, economics is far away. I always return refreshed and ready to carry on.

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.