Etatistic Quotes & Sayings

If you are stupid enough to dine with the devil, for Christ's sake use a long spoon. — Robert Littell

If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time. — David Blunkett

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive. — Marla Gibbs

You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite know where that desire to finish something, or return to something in a fresh way, is going to come from. Every time I finished a film and went back and looked at it, I had changed as a person. — Christopher Nolan

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself. — Dashiell Hammett

They did not suffer shipwreck because the entrepreneurs were not public-spirited, as the socialist-etatistic legend has it. They were bound to fail because the economic organization based upon division of labour and private property in the means of production can function only so long as price-determination in the market is free. — Ludwig Von Mises

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. — Martin H. Fischer

Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you. — Darren Hardy

The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us that while there is a reality that science allows us to approach the process of science is a human endeavor. — Brian Switek

Every word of etatistic thought is contradicted by the doctrines of sociology and economics; this is why etatists endeavour to prove that these sciences do not exist. In their opinion, social affairs are shaped by the State. To the law, all things are possible; and there is no sphere in which State intervention is not omnipotent. — Ludwig Von Mises

According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real "me" than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is! — Alan W. Watts

If you never give up, you'll be successful. — Dan O'Brien

Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. — Rebecca Skloot

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. — Edward De Bono

The oldest and most popular instrument of etatistic monetary policy is the official fixing of maximum prices. High prices, thinks the etatist, are not a consequence of an increase in the quantity of money, but a consequence of reprehensible activity on the part of 'bulls' and 'profiteers'; it will suffice to suppress their machinations in order to ensure the cessation of the rise of prices. Thus it is made a punishable offence to demand, or even to pay, 'excessive' prices. — Ludwig Von Mises

The first moments of being awake are neutral, as they always are, waiting for us to assign memory and meaning from the day before. — Sarah Ockler