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FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
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JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they i...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts whic...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to descri...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the proces...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty hav...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsc...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually infla...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant h...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisf...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enfor...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsm...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitt...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been e...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes...
ROBERT J. SHILLER If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsc...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant h...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result m...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enfor...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began qui...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a soc...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK Who can seriously doubt that the power which a millionaire, who may be my employer, has over me is v...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK When deeds speak, words are nothing.
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an object...
YIANNIS STOURNARAS The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations...
YIANNIS STOURNARAS We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the countr...
YIANNIS STOURNARAS Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
YIANNIS STOURNARAS Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned wi...
RAGNAR FRISCH I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.
RAGHURAM RAJAN If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow gr...
RAGHURAM RAJAN It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command ...
RAGHURAM RAJAN Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is accept...
RAGHURAM RAJAN It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep ...
VILFREDO PARETO I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral proce...
URJIT PATEL Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is o...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance wh...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your care...
LARRY SMITH If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work,...
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NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with m...
JOHN HARSANYI My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only chi...
JOHN HARSANYI For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interv...
EVAN DAVIS We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. H...
EVAN DAVIS I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the w...
TIM HARFORD Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy an...
E. F. SCHUMACHER You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
E. F. SCHUMACHER An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, mater...
E. F. SCHUMACHER Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
E. F. SCHUMACHER The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I ...
RAGHURAM RAJAN There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talen...
ANDREW LO In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Au...
JOHN HARSANYI I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
DAMBISA MOYO At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table...
DAMBISA MOYO We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to d...
DAMBISA MOYO The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-qualit...
DAMBISA MOYO I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that ...
DAMBISA MOYO The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
DAMBISA MOYO If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I&...
DAMBISA MOYO The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vul...
DAMBISA MOYO This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university....
DAMBISA MOYO I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you'r...
DAMBISA MOYO I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't...
DAMBISA MOYO I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the...
DAMBISA MOYO Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engi...
HA-JOON CHANG Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only...
HA-JOON CHANG Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. Howev...
HA-JOON CHANG People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the eno...
HA-JOON CHANG A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market ex...
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Confidence awakens confidence.
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Speech is always bolder than action.
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the gr...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Stern is the on-look of necessity,
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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
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FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER To save all we must risk all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear alle...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I am better than my reputation.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. Th...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Great souls endure in silence.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The strong man is strongest when alone.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- that literally ...
FRIEDRICH VON HUEGEL Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Good drama must be drastic.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The universe is one of God's thoughts.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Even the weak become strong when they are united.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The will of man is his happiness.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Will it, and set to work briskly.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Votes should be weighed not counted.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Virtue is reason which has become energy.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A historian is a prophet in reverse
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easi...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Architecture in general is frozen music.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHELLING The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Many so-called artists are really products of nature's art.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The most insignificant authors have at least this similarity to the Author of the Heavens and the Ea...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Have hope. Though clouds environs now,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanic...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pou...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Sorrow is brief but joy is endless
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The universe is one of God's thoughts
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He that is overcautious will accomplish little
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's existence
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Great souls suffer in silence
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present
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