Lionel Robbins Quotes & Sayings

I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins