economic values Quotes

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

In every generation good men have been perplexed by the paradoxical relation between moral and economic values.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

The elite cannot understand why President Trump is liked by so many Americans, nor why people flock to his rallies. Yet, it's in part because they believe he 'gets' them. They believe he understands and, most importantly, respects their economic values and their dreams.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

It means zero to be against greed.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.

In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.

The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.

As we look deeper for the soul of capitalism, we find that, in the terms of ordinary human existence, American capitalism doesn't appear to have one.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

[It is] a dangerous thing, it seems to me, when any one part of this country suggests that it may be a better place … merely because it has cheaper labor to offer. That never has been a thing, as far as I know, that we have been proud of.

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

The whole of this talk about America being more devoted to money than Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, or any other nation is nonsense.

Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.