Philosophy Quotes

"The constant effort towards population tends to subject the labouring classes to distress and to prevent any great permanent melioration of their condition."

"The checks to population are all resolvable into misery or vice."

"The principle of population is the foundation of all human society."

"The intellect alone cannot control the passions that drive human behavior."

"The universe operates by fixed laws that cannot be violated with impunity."

"The ideas that a person accepts as true determine the way he perceives the world and guides his actions."

"The value of a commodity is determined by the utility it possesses."

"Industrial organization reflects the underlying values and beliefs of society."

"The study of human nature is essential to understanding economics."

"The invisible hand of self-interest serves the public good."

"The worth of a thing to the possessor is its value in use."

"The economy is a system of human relationships governed by rational self-interest."

"The sentiments which make us social are not those which make us moral."

"In the social realm, there are no constants, only variables."

"The human animal is rational only in degree, not in kind."

"Every society has its parasites; every individual has their blind spots."

"Algorithms are tools, humans decide values."

"Schumpeter observed that capitalism would eventually collapse under the weight of its own intellectual contradictions."

"The masses do not think for themselves; they follow the lead of their intellectual masters."

"The intellectuals who criticize capitalism are often the very products it has created and elevated."

"Survival of the fittest applies to ideas and institutions as much as to biological organisms."

"A stable economy requires both virtue in the individual and wisdom in governance."

"The economic man is not selfish but rational in his pursuit of well-being."

"The paradox of thrift is that individual prudence can lead to collective poverty."

"The purpose of economics is not to make men rich but to explain why some are and others are not."

"To understand the circulation of money is to understand the circulation of life itself."

"The price of everything reflects the value that someone places upon it."

"To create a just economy requires both the head of the scientist and the heart of the humanitarian."

"The cause of the poverty of the poor cannot be found in the individual causes which determine the distribution of wealth."

"The principle that population tends to increase beyond the supply of food is the root of all misery."