418 quotes found
“One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.”
“Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that the good old morals have decayed, and acc...”
“Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension.”
“Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know. ”
“The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.”
“It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be...”
“The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.”
“Spend a few hours every week studying American history, human nature, and economic theory. Start with Economics in One Lesson. Then try Keynes. Then Hayek. Then Marx. Then Hegel. Develop a worldvie...”
“Parents are not alone in focusing their expectations on success at the graduation exam: The whole education system colludes with them. The curriculum and organization of schools often date back to ...”
“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
“When you work hard in a job that suits your living standards, never greed for fortune because you will distract yourself from fulfilling other important priorities and participating in leisure acti...”
“The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself fro...”
“The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered ...”
“Because of the collapsing economy of America, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that this ship will soon flounder.”
“Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like...”
“The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.”
“The economist may attempt to ignore psychology, but it is sheer impossibility for him to ignore human nature If the economist borrows his conception of man from the psychologist his constructive w...”
“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”
“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed.”
“The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!”
