I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton]… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton… — Alan King Copy Share Image
When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
“Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's… — Dayna Devon Copy Share Image
It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from… — George Woodward Warder Copy Share Image
“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
![“I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight is that a market limits the power that others have over us; conversely, limiting the power that others have over us allows us to have markets. Friedman…” quote by Arnold Kling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/100/arnold-kling-32482_better-job_i-call-this-the-fundamental-problem-of-p_1424862.jpg)
