In a dying civilization, political diagnostics is best done when you
have good and strange bedside manners.
---Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Democritus.
---Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Democritus.
Democracy, n.: Government of the sheep, by the shepherds,
for the wolves.
---L. A. Rollins, The Devil's Lexicon.
---L. A. Rollins, The Devil's Lexicon.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
---Oscar Wilde.
---Oscar Wilde.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of
ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid
being deceived by economists.
---Joan Robinson, Economist.
---Joan Robinson, Economist.
Macroeconomists have successfully predicted nine of the last
five recessions.
---Yoram K. Bauman, UWash Economist.
---Yoram K. Bauman, UWash Economist.
One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong,
but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for
that charge: "They present solutions, but I don't like them."
---Noam Chomsky.
---Noam Chomsky.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people
who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
---Mark Twain.
---Mark Twain.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer
despair for the human race.
---Herbert George Wells.
---Herbert George Wells.
If an engineer proposed a design for an aircraft
with a constantly expanding crew, we would think him mad.
And yet, when an economist defends a theory that posits a
perpetually growing global economy, he is awarded a Nobel Prize.
---Paul Ehrlich.
---Paul Ehrlich.
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