#economy

There is no pure free-market economy. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#free-market #market economy #pure

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#businesses #economy #million #nation #need

Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience many new things, but he'd find first, that the food is under lock and key and second, that humans are considered to be a miserable, destructive, greedy lot, just as they are in the West. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#economy #my-ishmael #philosophy-of-life #experience

Broke is a relative term, like sister, cousin, or Uncle Sam.
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— Jarod Kintz

#america #broke #broken #cousin #debt

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#economics #justice #economy

The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. ↗

— Barack Obama

#speech #economy

When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#political-economy #business

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#economy #taxes #taxing #business

Satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#politics #power #business

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#crises #economy #education #gift-economy #money