"The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations……" — Henry Hazlitt
"The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it."
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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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It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists…
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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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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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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors…
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse…
— Julie Burchill
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift…
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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
— Deepak Chopra
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Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
— Walter Scott
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I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind…
— Wernher von Braun
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country…
— Sun Tzu
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As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do…
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