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Economics Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a…
- I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the…
- People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
- The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails…
- Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the…
- An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
- America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal…
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- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works… — Michele Bachmann
- Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of… — Frederic Bastiat
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat
- They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers… — Frederic Bastiat
- Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. — Frederic Bastiat
- I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run… — Glenn Beck
- I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as… — Ben Bernanke
- Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my… — Lewis Black
- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. — Bertolt Brecht