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Men Quotes by Henry Hazlitt
- It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is…
- The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be…
- Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man
- There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew…
- You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of…
- There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary,…
- A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness…
- A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.
- Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be…
- The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never…
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