Top 1200 Politics And Economics Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a way it maybe isn't in American fiction. Your work of art becomes fashionable the moment it has some kind of political commentary. I think this has its dangers - the equation between fashion, politics, and art is problematic for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, the notion of politics as being de rigueur in the world of fiction is almost unthinkable. In fiction in America at the moment, the escape into whimsy is far more prevalent than the political.

I joined Red Chillies entertainment right after I returned from the London School of Economics in 2007.

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

I usually stay out of politics, but people have asked me whether the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), if passed by the Senate, will affect me personally. I'm about music, not politics, but the fact is this one has me freaked out for poor and disabled people.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

On politics I strive as much as possible to let my passions be for God and for the Church and for others (the Jesus Creed). I place no confidence in redemption by way of politics. The political hope ebbs and flows every 8 years now; I don't get all riled up if a Republican or a Democrat wins; I don't think it matters that much to what we are called to do on a daily basis.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people: By the way, I was black before the election.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

[Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the politics he imagined, over and against the universalizing politics of [Carl] Marx, was the medieval city of Novgorod, which had in its center a public well where the water was free to everyone. That became for him a figure of justice.

Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.

Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government

Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.

Simply as an exercise in efficient politics, Obama '08 rewrote the textbook. His accomplishment was historic and one that transformed how race and politics intersect in our society. Obama is the leading edge of this change, but his success is merely the ripple in a pond that grows deeper every day.

Some of the issues with identity politics are critical moral issues. But we've got to show America that we don't have a plan just on these so-called identity politics issues, but that we have a plan for the economy, that we know how to provide for a strong national defense.

Political change does not really lead to any fundamental change for most of the people, indeed because politics (even if it calls itself democratic) is elitist and barred to most people, so it is necessary to look to new movements outside of "politics."

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.

I have not been able in one lecture even to scratch the surface of the role of maximum principles in analytic economics.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

If you're sort of interested in politics but sort of upset about contemporary politics, it's kind of wonderful to read about periods who were very eloquent and admirable - generally. People are articulating ideas you can sympathize with or understand both sides of. Or at least feel like one side is saying the right things.

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

When I was graduating college with an economics degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was kind of scared. So I was just trying everything.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.

To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.

It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their country. They introduced politics into sport." And Don [Bradman] was a very shrewd old bloke, and he looked at me for about thirty seconds and then he said, "Bob, I've got no answer to that." And that was it.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.

Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

That line, about half of somebody's supporters being deplorables, was maybe the worst line I've ever heard in politics. You never - even when you're running against a bunch of racists, you never take off against the voters. It was a politics 101 foible.

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.

It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done.