Top 80 Economic System Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Economic System Quotes from famous people such as Vivienne Westwood, Paul Dirac, Rick Tumlinson, Trish Regan, Hervey Allen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The main message we want to get out there is that clima

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne Westwood
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
Paul Dirac
Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government.
Rick Tumlinson
Capitalism – for the record – has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.
Trish Regan
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Hervey Allen
Here’s what I don’t think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I’m tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
Michael Moore
We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul Ryan
Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
Henry Williamson
I’m a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
Gary Hamel
If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
Simon Mainwaring
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system… I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
Morris Hite
But what I believe is that if a person’s individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don’t issue mandates to businesses that you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that.
Clarence Thomas
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
Annalee Newitz
I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America’s economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.
Jim Webb
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
Annalee Newitz
To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
Vaclav Klaus
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
Vivienne Westwood
No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.
Marco Rubio
If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
Simon Mainwaring
Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.
Ruby Dee
Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
John T. Flynn
My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.
Alicia Garza
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
Sarah Churchwell
Our country deserves a party that isn’t afraid to say immigration is a good thing, or to say that Donald Trump is racist, or to admit that we have an economic system that is fundamentally broken for too many people and is breaking our planet too.
Jo Swinson
We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
Park Geun-hye
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
Francis Parker Yockey
Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don’t change course, if we don’t change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
Naomi Klein
Here’s what I don’t think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I’m tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
Michael Moore
Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system that has infected our institutions, our culture and even our thinking.
David Olusoga
We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
Stanley Hauerwas
Socialism most always leads to a failure of democracy because the economic system ultimately cannot provide for its people.
Trish Regan
Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it

Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system that has infected our institutions, our culture and even our thinking.
David Olusoga
What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.
Ronald Coase
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people’s changing tastes.
James Surowiecki
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
Hervey Allen
No matter how the financial system is set up, no matter what the economic system is, as long as you have people, you’re going to have financial crises; you’re going to have bubbles that manifest themselves in the financial system.
Henry Paulson
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
John Boyd Orr
A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.
Gavin Esler
By all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be allowed to have a broader conversation about the pharmaceutical industry and the deep structural flaws in our economic system.
Kirsten Powers
To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
Vaclav Klaus
I like computers. I like the Internet. It’s a tool that can be used. But don’t be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
Jerry Brown
There’s something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O’Rourke
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.
Herbert Read
I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you’ve got to also have social investments to go along with that.
Mike Lowry
No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.
Marco Rubio
Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.
Subramanian Swamy
Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
John T. Flynn
Capitalism – for the record – has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.
Trish Regan
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
Francis Parker Yockey
Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don’t change course, if we don’t change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
Naomi Klein
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called ‘the chosen.’
Martha Beck
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
Thomas Woods