Quotes About Economics

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...

Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money.

We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.