economy

   Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy. She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears, whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

—Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin

'Beauty' is a currency like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in theWest it isthe last, best belief systemthat keeps male domination intact.

—Wolf, Naomi

Thinking precisely and systematically about something as complex and irregular as a modern economy is very difficult, maybe impossible.

—Solow, Robert M

   It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.

—Steuart (later Denham), SirJames

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence† We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

—Stevens, Brooks

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

—Babbage, Charles

They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen† Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.

—Smollett,Tobias George

The economy, stupid!

—Anonymous

Although woman has performed much of the labor of theworld, her industryand economy have beenthevery means of increasing her degradation.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

In art economy is always beauty.

—James, Henry

Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

—Eden, Sir (Robert) Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.

—Maxton,James

The Soviet Union remains a superpower in the military and nuclear senseöonly its economy is in difficulty. People want me to lead the troops out or to chuck them over the border, but I have neither the strength nor the will to do it.

—Walesa, Lech

   No economy ever stands still.

—Harrod, Sir Roy

Afew weeksago Ihad a revelation and told my secretary that I could give him a synthesis of forty-six years of living with economic policy. It is: 'Economic policy is random with respect to the performance of the American economy, but, thank God, there isn't much of it.'

—Stein, Herbert

Political economy (the economyof a State, orofcitizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things.

—Ruskin,John

Political economy thus does not recognize the unoccupied worker, the working man so far as he is outside this work relationship. Swindlers, thieves, beggars, the unemployed, the starving, poverty- stricken and criminal working man, are figures which do not exist for political economy, but only for other eyes; fordoctors, judges,grave-diggers,beadles,etc.Theyare ghostly figures outsidethe domain of political economy.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

Political economy tracesinanabstract way theeffects of the desire to be rich; and nations must nowadays abound in that passion if theyare to have much poweror respect in the world.

—Bagehot,Walter

Mientras en Norteame¤  rica la colonizacio¤  n deposito¤   los ge¤  rmenes de un esp|¤ritu y una econom|¤a que se plasmaban entonces en Europa y a los cuales pertenec|¤a el porvenir, a la Ame¤  rica espan‹  ola trajo los efectos y los me¤  todos de un esp|¤ritu y una econom|¤a que declinaban ya y a los cuales no pertenec|¤a sino el pasado. Whereas in North America colonization planted the seeds of the spirit and economy then growing in Europe

—Maria¤ t egui,Jose¤   Carlos

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

—Deng Xiaoping

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. The purpose shall be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

—Marshall, George C(atlett)

John Stuart Mill, By a mighty effort of will, Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote'Principles of Political Economy'.

—Bentley, Edmund Clerihew