Quotes About Economics

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.