Conomic Quotes & Sayings

That's what I am; I'm a drip. You still get hydrated, you still get your nutrients, just a little at a damn time. — J. B. Smoove

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence. — Frank Herbert

[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills. — Doug Bandow

Fear is not only part of us, it becomes us. Consuming all that we are until we simply have nothing left. — Melissa Toppen

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. — Kenneth Baker

I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture. — Benny Carter

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Julia was a tall, ungainly girl, much taller than Gordon, with a thin face and a neck just a little too long - one of those girls who even at their most youthful remind one irresistibly of a goose. — George Orwell

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Yeah," Violet says from where she's stooped on the floor. "But those weren't family tears." Whitney rakes her fingers through Hadley's hair. "What were they, then." "Those were boy tears," Violet says with a smile. — Jennifer E. Smith

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics — Ludwig Von Mises

One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real conservatives find their views no longer matter. — Ron Paul

If women only knew the extent of their power! — Alphonse Karr

He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote "enhanced" when he meant "increased." He was a prick. — Joseph Heller