Arthur C Pigou Quotes & Sayings

Your name told you just how your life would go. — Chuck Palahniuk

My lessons and strengths are found in my failures. — Latorria Freeman

Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment. — Arthur Cecil Pigou

Without people, Masada is just a big rock. — Mendell Martin

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished. — Arthur Cecil Pigou

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. — Ammianus Marcellinus

There are no immovable barriers to education. — Irina Bokova

There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that ... — R.C. Sproul

The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. Prosperity ends in a crisis. The era of optimism dies in the crisis, but in dying it gives birth to an era of pessimism. This new era is born, not an infant, but a giant; for an industrial boom has necessarily been a period of strong emotional excitement, and an excited man passes from one form of excitement to another more rapidly than he passes to quiescence. Under the new error, business is unduly depressed. — Arthur Cecil Pigou

In a sense, this is the ultimate validation of capitalism. Its psychological requirements are also the requirements of life and happiness. It is the only system consistent with the requirements of human life. — Edith Packer

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future. — William J. Clinton

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal. — Arthur Cecil Pigou

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves. — James A. Garfield

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again. — Nicholas Hoult