26 Movie Quotes about Inflation (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

Memorable quotes about inflation, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 They're wheat farmers, aren't they? There never was a war fought and there never will be that didn't send the price of wheat sky-high.

Claire Trevor as Mary McCloud in Dark Command (1940)

22 We, the people, suffered. We still suffer from unemployment, inflation, crime and corruption.

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)

23 For far too long, the wrong roads have been taken. The wrong roads have led us into war, into poverty, into unemployment and inflation.

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)

24 I'm talking about good, wholesome, fortified with eight essential vitamins love that cost anywhere... How much it cost? -About $136, Monday through Fridays. $212 on the weekends. -Because of inflation.

Eddie Murphy as Norbit in Norbit

25 My friend Bremann was ruined by inflation. Couldn't get a job in postwar Germany. Killed himself.

Anthony Hopkins as Mr Stevens in The Remains of the Day

26 Will it cost much? -No, we'd have the price controlled. No inflation on slaves.

Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean in Ocean's 11 (1960)