“Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell” — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“As the authors of the studies point out, these effects suggest that economics education may have serious consequences for students’ attitudes towards… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in — Arun Sarin Copy Share Image
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it… — Terry McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis.… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , which Smith published in 1776, is the most… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Consider the recent financial crisis and its link to faulty reward systems. President Bill Clinton's objective of increasing homeownership by rewarding potential… — Max H. Bazerman Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, progressive voices in the media are shining a spotlight on the need for new businesses that serve both entrepreneurs and local… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
“But to the modern mind, resonating with different media-metaphors, the truth in economics is believed to be best discovered and expressed in… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Before 'Life of Pi,' I wanted to do economics. And now, I realize how bad a mistake that would have been. I… — Suraj Sharma Copy Share Image
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“modern economies have developed ways of avoiding costs or passing them on that effectively remove the sanctions from dishonest or manipulative behaviour.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The economy is a thoughtless weather system- and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with. — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations. — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
