The curious task of economics is to to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote- Stan Lee
If I got a superpower I wouldn’t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?
RIP Mr. Lee and thanks for all the fun.
Friday Quote – Roman van Ree
Don’t be fooled by the words “socialism” and “communism”. Once you come to understand what they mean in terms of economic freedom you will know that they are anything but social, and have nothing to do with community. They simply mean “centralization of power in the hands of the people that make up the state, in the hands of the master class.
They are nothing but euphemisms for “slavery”.
Friday Quote- Jonathan Haidt
There are people who are less emotional and more reasoned. They’re called libertarians.
Not sure if I have the quote exactly right. I heard this on a recent Science Salon podcast. Damn near had an accident due to sudden burst of laughter.
Friday Quote – Jared Howe
Anything which requires the labor or property of other people is not a basic human right. That includes education, healthcare, food, internet access, housing, or anything else that involves an investment of capital and labor. To demand free goods and services from people who sacrifice time and capital to produce them is to demand that those people become your slaves. You don’t have the right to enslave people for food or education or healthcare anymore than plantation owners had a right to enslave people to pick cotton.
Friday Quote- Fredrick Douglass
If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning…
Friday Quote – Ray Bradbury
The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Friday Quote – Thomas Sowell
There are three questions that will destroy most of the arguments on the left: 1. Compared to what? 2. At what cost? 3. What hard evidence do you have?
Friday Quote – Calvin Coolidge
The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much more meager.
Friday Quote – Frederick Douglass
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.