Quotes about economics
133 quotes from 78 people
Government doesn’t “intrude” on the “free market.” It creates the market.
Robert Reichborn 1946Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)
Thomas Robert Malthus1766–1834An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter I, paragraph 18, lines 1-2I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unarmed Victory (1963), p. 14- Bertrand Russell1872–1970Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 13: Freedom in Society
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1080 (1896) (Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Holmes dissenting).It’s class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.
Warren Buffettborn 1930Interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN (25 May 2005)Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Ludwig von Mises1881–1973Nation, State, and Economy (1919), p 186The more the state “plans” the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
Friedrich Hayek1899–1992The Road to Serfdom (1944), Chapter 6: Planning and the Rule of LawNobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1355 (26 November 1930)
Thomas Sowellborn 1930The Thomas Sowell Reader, New York: NY, Basic Books (2011) p. 144, Forbes magazine, “The survival of the left” (Sept. 8, 1997)
Fidel Castro1926–2016Statement of 1991, during the fall of USSR.
Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 41
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882English Traits (1856), Ability
