Quotes About Economics

I think that soccer is one thing, and money is another thing.

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

Social justice and economics are both issues to me.

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Socialism means slavery.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

I have been advocating in favor of free markets and against socialism since I was a teenager.

Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.