Lying Quote by Ezra Pound

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

— Roger Kahn

“Theorists are always saying something. That's their job. They don't need to believe what they're saying.”

— Anonymous

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the…

— George Ritzer

In my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has appointed a…

— Tim Kaine

Obviously, consideration of costs is key, including opportunity costs. Of course capital isn't free. It's easy to figure out your cost of borrowing, but…

— Charlie Munger

In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

— Samuel Johnson

I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its…

— Jon Spaihts

What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector,…

— Murray Rothbard