Civilization Quote by Abhijit Naskar

“Inflation creates bubble and burst. That develops world economy, and will destroy it too.”

— Toba Beta

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with…

— Henry Hazlitt

“One day incentives may catch up with inflation, but it will never catch up with our aspirations.”

— Amit Kalantri

“That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“And with the inflation our inner system disintegrated utterly. Fortunes disappeared overnight. Money that one day would have meant lifelong security, on the next…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“A dollar for your thoughts. Inflation life was too short to spend time spinning your wheels somewhere you didn't want to be.”

— Nina Pierce

“...We would see people wanting to work, not for pennies on the dollar, or to try and keep up with inflation, but because their…

— D.M. Shiro

“There were only two big forces to worry about: growth and inflation.”

— Ray Dalio

“Inequality was the price of civilization.”

— George Orwell

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”

— Mark Twain

“Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.”

— Charles Eisenstein

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

— Paul Krugman