Quotes about Economics

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

Whether the owners of this species of property [slavery] do really see it as it is, it is not for me to say, but if they do, they see it as it is through 2,000,000,000 of dollars, and that is a pretty thick coating.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

The wonder of the Exodus narrative is that the role of pharaoh continues to be reperformed in many times and many places. "Pharaoh" reappears in the course of history in the guise of coercive economic production. In every new performance, the character of Pharaoh makes claims to be absolute to perpetuity; the character is regularly propelled by fearful greed; the character imposes stringent economic demands on a vulnerable labor force.

doing economic justice for the vulnerable in generous, intentional ways, is communion with God.

The store-house cities are an ancient parallel to the great banks and insurance houses where surplus wealth is kept among us. That surplus wealth, produced by the cheap labor of peasants, must now be protected from the peasants by law and by military force.

But, looking round at the world as it is, it seems to me (I speak as a fool) that youth is all out for dogma, and that if boys and girls grow up imagining that Christianity has no dogma to give them, they'll give themselves over to political dogma or economic dogma in its crudest and most intransigent form.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Anyone who does not want communism-and none of us do-should take socialism seriously.