Lachmann Quotes & Sayings

But there is no such thing as safe. There is only safe than something else. Skiing and driving cars are thousands of times more dangerous than walking or cycling. Yet we never refuse to enter a motor vehicle because it "may" cause death. — Michael Specter

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan. — Kevin Smith

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry. — Paul Heyse

If my gift has a giver other than indifferent Nature and comes with a purpose, then the angel in charge of the Odd Thomas account must be operating on a shoestring budget. — Dean Koontz

The door is open, but judging from the slow, mournful melody, I don't think he wants to talk. — Lyn Miller-Lachmann

The generic concept of capital without which economists cannot do their work has no measurable counterpart among material objects; it reflects the entrepreneurial appraisal of such objects. Beer barrels and blast furnaces, harbour installations and hotel-room furniture are capital not by virtue of their physical properties but by virtue of their economic functions. Something is capital because the market, the consensus of entrepreneurial minds, regards it as capable of yielding an income. This does not mean that the phenomena of capital cannot be comprehended by clear and unambiguous concepts. The stock of capital used by society does not present a picture of chaos. Its arrangement is not arbitrary. There is some order in it. — Ludwig Lachmann

One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available. — Andrea Dworkin

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice. — Richard Mottram

Power, as Max Weber wrote, is the ability to make others do what you want them to do and what they wouldn't do otherwise. — Richard Lachmann

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark. — John Berger

Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of God is far better than mastering your own path. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness. — Mahmoud Darwish