Politics Quotes

"Regulation is not a solution; it is often the problem."

"Monetary policy is too important to be left to central bankers."

"The size of government is not a matter of ideology; it is a matter of empirical fact."

"The fundamental question is not what government should do, but what it can do effectively."

"The role of the state should be to create the conditions for freedom, not to direct how freedom is used."

"The circulation of elites is the fundamental principle of social dynamics."

"The ideal of equality is a pleasing fantasy."

"Society is divided between those who produce and those who consume."

"The political animal becomes moral only through society."

"Industrial sabotage by management is more damaging than any labor disruption."

"Capitalism is being murdered by its own offspring, the intellectuals it produced."

"Socialism is what socialists make of it."

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."

"To the observer who has witnessed business cycles and the peculiarities of economic policy, the statement that capitalism means free competition seems hopelessly naive."

"Democracy is a system in which two wolves and one lamb vote on what to have for lunch."

"Every system of government reflects the intellectual conditions of its time."

"Democracy is a means to an end, not an end in itself."

"Capitalism creates the conditions for its own intellectual opposition."

"Monopoly is the enemy of progress and the friend of stagnation."

"Inflation is a hidden tax upon the thrifty and the poor alike."

"Every system of political economy must be judged by its effects on human happiness."

"The political choices we make in economics determine the kind of society we become."

"Politics should serve the common good."

"Politics reflects our values."

"Politics without principle is theater; principle without politics is irrelevance."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the financially desperate seeking validation through national pride."

"Community welfare consistently yields to individual financial aggrandizement in capitalist economies."

"Industrial democracy remains impossible while economic power concentrates in private hands without accountability."

"Economic progress remains constrained by institutional arrangements that serve elite pecuniary interests."

"Political economy you think is an enquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. It is no such thing."