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Economics Quotes by Murray Rothbard
- Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in…
- There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.
- This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them…
- Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.
- If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier,…
- It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing…
- Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help…
- Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is…
- It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a…
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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