A lot of wisdom can be conveyed in a few words.

There are lots of interesting, thought-provoking, amusing and mind-boggling things out there, and many people have said interesting, thought-provoking, amusing and mind-boggling things about them.

Add your favourite quotations that refer to the world of economics here!

"Poverty is a luxury the world can no longer afford."

(It may have been coined by Mohammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, but memory deludes me.)

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don´t have to
worry about answers."

Every Dollar Makes a difference.
Every Dollar you spend is a vote for the world you want to create.

Think Globally but buy locally.

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”--- Emma Goldman

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

- Joseph Sobran

"To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth." -- Murray Bookchin

"Government cannot exist without the tacit consent of the populace. This consent is maintained by keeping people in ignorance of their real power. Voting is not an expression of power, but an admission of powerlessness, since it cannot do otherwise than reaffirm the government’s supposed legitimacy." -- Fred Woodworth

(These are some of the quotes from Thomas' thread on Debt Slavery.)

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal, there is no human relation between master and slave. (Leo Tolstoy)

"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them with the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again.

Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes as mine will disappear, and they ougth to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."
(Sir Josiah Stamp, Director, Bank of England 1928-1941. Reputed to be the 2nd richest man in England at the time.)

'The study of money, above all fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth, or evade truth, not to reveal it.'

John Kenneth Galbraiht

'Money is a mode of organizing our life in the material world; money is an invention, a mental device, very necessary, very ingenious, but, in the end, a product of the mind.'

Jacob Needleman