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Price Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
- Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a…
- As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.
- The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act…
- With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed"…
- Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower…
- It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people…
- Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
- A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate…
- Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda…
- Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that ……
- With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed"…
More Price Quotes
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James A. Baldwin
- No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. — James A. Baldwin
- I love being able to go to a store, let's say... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends… — Tyra Banks
- It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast,… — Roger Bannister
- Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
- What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means… — Glenn Beck
- Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of… — Ben Bernanke