1,161 Quotes About Economics

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

Socialism is politicized envy.

Kita selalu berkaok-kaok tentang sosialisme, tapi tindakan pemerintahan kebalikan dari itu. Harga bensin misalnya, dinaikkan sekaligus 62 kali lipat, tarif gas dan listrik melambung 20 kali, serta harga beras melompat-lompat tak terbeli.

Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and talking about economic inequality was pretty much taboo.

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist emphasis on 'efficiency' - a word which as been elevated to almost holy status in the neoliberal lexicon, but in reality has become a shameful euphemism for the sacrifice of human dignity at the altar of share prices.