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Economic Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can…
- The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to…
- Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement…
- There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
- Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross…
- When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy…
- How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets…
- Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
- .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their…
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is…
- There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
- It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to…
- The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
- War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
- There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not…
More Economic Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
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- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be… — David Attenborough
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,… — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. — Michelle Bachelet
- I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe.… — Michele Bachmann
- It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his… — Russell Baker
- 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