Economic Base

Famous quotes containing the words economic and/or base:

“A society in which everyone works is not necessarily a free society and may indeed be a slave society; on the other hand, a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for the millions of people.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)