Economic Retaliation

Famous quotes containing the words economic and/or retaliation:

    “The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    “The retaliation is apt to be in monstrous disproportion to the supposed offense; for when in anybody was revenge in its exactions aught else but an inordinate usurer?”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)