Hands Quotes by Henry Hazlitt

8 Hands quotes by Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt’s take on hands appears in eight succinct statements that cut straight to the core. The collection is brief, but each line mirrors his clear‑cut thinking and offers a neat snapshot of his viewpoint.

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The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of…

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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.…

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The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced,…

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Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce…

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In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on…

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What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

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When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes,…

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Competition always tends to bring about the most economical and efficient method of production. Those who are most successful in this competition…

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It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

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“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals…

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Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

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When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private…

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“The analysis of our illustrations has taught us another incidental lesson. This is that, when we study the effects of various proposals, not merely…

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There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It…

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The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation…

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Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed…

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It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder…

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Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are…

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“the desperate need to get back to normal housing and other living conditions stimulated increased efforts. But this does not mean that property destruction…

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Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages,…

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“It is a misconception to think of the function or result of machines as primarily one of creating jobs . The real result of…

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A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production…

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A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations…

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