"It is often sadly remarked that the bad……" — 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 often complained that demagogues can be more plausible in putting forward economic nonsense from the platform than the honest men who try to show what is wrong with it."
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Henry Hazlitt
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54 Quotes by Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt has 54 quotes on this site.
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The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But…
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The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because…
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed…
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Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is…
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There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
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Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
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The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a…
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What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
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Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
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Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the…
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From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least…
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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