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Economic Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,…
- Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
- [No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to…
- A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
- Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
- Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
- Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I…
- All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor…
- From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not…
- Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home;…
- There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:…
- [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get…
- Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is…
- Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little…
- You can't have the family farm without the family.
- Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely…
- Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the…
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- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat