Post Crash Economics Quotes & Sayings

You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office. — Vitali Klitschko

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love — Aristotle.

He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted by others, and those other His special enemies, a death which to them was supremely terrible and by no means to be faced; and He did this in order that, by destroying even this death, He might Himself be believed to be the Life, and the power of death be recognised as finally annulled. A marvellous and mighty paradox has thus occurred, for the death which they thought to inflict on Him as dishonour and disgrace has become the glorious monument to death's defeat. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from most faculties, claims Tony Lawson. In the 1970s, when he started teaching at Cambridge, the economics faculty still boasted legends such as Nicky Kaldor and Joan Robinson. "There were big debates, and students would study politics, the history of economic thought." And now? "Nothing. No debates, no politics or history of economic thought and the courses are nearly all maths."
How do elites remain in charge? If the tale of the economists is any guide, by clearing out the opposition and then blocking their ears to reality. The result is the one we're all paying for. — Aditya Chakrabortty

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do. — Sigourney Weaver

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. — Donald Trump

I've never written a fiction before about real people ... I read everything that I could find by people who met them and tried to get some impression of them, but as always when you write fiction, even if you have completely fictitious characters, you start by thinking of what is plausible, what would they say, what would they be likely to do, what would they be likely to think. At some point, if it is every going to come to life, the characters seem to take over and start speaking themselves, and it happened with [COPENHAGEN]. — Michael Frayn

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them. — John Bunyan

But you can't read every story, and answer every question even if you'd like to — Lemony Snicket

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position. — Susan Sontag

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either. — Joanna Lumley

He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich. — Victor Hugo

To know a thing does not always enable us to prevent it, but at least the things we know we do hold, if not in our hands, at any rate in our minds, where we can dispose of them as we choose, and this gives us the illusion of a sort of power over them. — Marcel Proust

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. — Sherman Alexie

If my mind could have made a sound, it would have burst a row of wineglasses. — Scott Spencer