Economic Power Quotes

Give me the power to issue a nation’s money; then I do not care who makes the laws.

I care not who forms the government of a country, so long as I control the purse strings.

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

Economics, not force of arms will decide; not battles, but famine.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

Money is the God of Algiers and Mahomet is their prophet.

Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value... but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers... and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day.

Give the votes to people who have no property and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.

Let China sleep for when she wakes, the world will tremble.

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

How that happened - how the money and the power arrayed itself and who got the share in that, who got cut out, who was exploited and who did the exploiting - that to me is a story of The Deuce that's more about almost the America that we inhabit today, more than just merely about pornography or prostitution.

Wars are directed by bankers.

The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

Capital is good; the capitalist is a helper if he is not also a monopolist. We can safely let any one get as rich as he can if he will not despoil others in doing so.

It's not hard to be valuable when you are a monopoly.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

The real wealth of a nation resides in its farms and factories and the people who man them.

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.

Poor people don’t employ people; only rich people do.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson — and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of Woodrow Wilson. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States — only on a far bigger and broader basis.