History Quote by Milton Friedman Download Open image “The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.” — Milton Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Losing Mankind Money Nature of man Values
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness. — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?! — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
