Bike Quote by Jacques Anquetil

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

— John Warren Kindt

“Public lotteries are essentially regressive taxes imposed on the poor.”

— Eric Schlosser

European lotteries are the tax on fools.

— Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”

— Roger Jones

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

— Anonymous

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think,…

— Daniel Tammet

“The system was elementary, as you can see. Naturally these "lotteries" failed. Their moral virtue was nil. They were not directed at all of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

— Adam Smith

Everything that's going on within the peloton - there's about ten different races going on. There is also a survival element to it -…

— David Millar

Lotteries are just one way to provide positive reinforcement. Their power comes from the fact that the chance of winning the prize is overvalued.

— Richard Thaler

“Lotteries are how the rich steal from the poor!”

— Steven Magee