Quotes on Economy

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

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

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.