Uneconomic Quotes & Sayings

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity. — Nigel Lawson

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else. — John James Cowperthwaite

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing. — Vinod Khosla

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. — Russell Baker

Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or debt expansion that must be paid later. And government's spending choices will always be uneconomic relative to how society would use that wealth. That is to say, the money will be wasted. — Llewellyn Rockwell

God speaks to us, through His Word by His Spirit. — T. B. Joshua

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change. — Evan Esar

With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate? — Helen And Scott Nearing

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era. — Ernest Istook

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. — Theodor Adorno

I catch a break as a cloud passes over the sun. — Stephanie Perkins

Want to come one step closer to wisdom? Then you have to train yourself unconditionally in forbearance. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life. — Robert De Niro

London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. — Stephen King

It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it. — Damon Albarn

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary. — Martin Amis

What a revolution in her ideas! — Jane Austen

Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded to spend the money wildly and borrow even more extravagantly on public works and other uneconomic forms of 'investment.' — Murray Rothbard

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. — Joan Robinson

Diverting resources into uneconomic uses takes them away from other, more productive areas and costs jobs. Some jobs are lost; others are never created. The uneconomic effects of protectionism benefit a few - usually well-to-do - at the expense of the great majority, including the poor. Protectionism cannot be justified on economic or moral grounds. As Frederic Bastiat wrote, tariffs are "legalized plunder." The law is used to steal. By — Ludwig Von Mises

Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned. — Robert L. Bradley Jr.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it. — Alberto Fujimori

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right. — Reed Hastings

Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom. — Martin Amis

Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity. — Walter Block

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. — E.F. Schumacher