No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner...… — John Cairns Copy Share Image
When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. — Ernst Engel Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image