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I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Thinking outside the box only works if you know everything inside it. Don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone else’s chapter 20. That’s the biggest mistake young entrepreneurs do and end up getting disappointed. The ones you call conventional are the business models, which have been optimized and modified at various stages over a long period of time. You need to work hard and be a bit more patient.
— Nitin Sharma, From Tiggie, With Love
You live once, and life is short, so start caring and loving.
— john ignatius
Waiting for you is not hard.cause i have enough memories for rest of my life.but its hard to understand while am I keeping you in my present and future you raising me from your past
— hope me
Love is always based on self-interest
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Love is better than any weapon
—  all you have to do is keep it burning in the heart of the victim. He will do whatever you ask him to do.
Hate is more felt than love
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
At the beginning love is a fact, at the end it's a theory
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Love is a sweet dream until the hand of reality wakes you up
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Love has its own eyes, and they are more efficient at the beginning and faulty at the end
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Understanding you is sometimes weird but never to tricky for me to reach your mind. Loving you sometimes it's a hard torture but nothing will be hard enough to break the love I feel for the Evil'Angel in you !
— jmemo
Self-preservation is an enemy of love.
— Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
There are so many more important things to think about than that elusive emotion called love.
— Amelia Grey, A Gentleman Says "I Do"
I won't accept anything less than forever with you.
— Alicia Rae, Tattooed Scars
Love has no form, no color and is certainly not prejudice or judgmental.
— Matthew Donnelly
Real love ought to be more like a tree and less like a flower. That's the kind of love my parents had. Not so consuming and more everlasting. And you see that tree over there? Now it's only showing green leaves, but during the spring it's covered in flowers. Because as reliable as trees are, they can also speak of beauty and passion.
— Mya Robarts, The V Girl
Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place.
— Jamie McGuire, Something Beautiful
You are you. You are not a label. As an individual you have a unique place in my heart and mind.
— Salil Jha
I don't look girls in the eyes, I am afraid to fall in love
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Divorce is an expensive punishment love gets when it fails
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
When you love someone, you often surprise yourself with the kind of forbearance you can show in the face of total exasperation.
— Amit  Pandey, The Retro Man
Where love passes it leaves an indelible mark
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Falling in love is literally falling from your independence to let another control your life
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
As long as we love happiness will be our constant companion.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
What you call love on your side may be called lust on another's side.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.
— John Burnham Schwartz, Claire Marvel
No gimmicks, only agape.
— Steven Chopade
No matter how many times you say you'll give up with words, if your heart still says "love", there's nothing to be done.
— Io Sakisaka
Maybe you're right, Red. Maybe I am hateful. Maybe I ruined your life. Maybe I'm the devil, and the worst thing that ever happened to you, and a million other awful things... But did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster... I might be your soulmate, anyway?
— Julie   Johnson, Erasing Faith
In times of your need, you will know those who really love you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.
— Ken Poirot
Love always finds its way, but if you love someone just say...
— Deepanshu Saini, By The Mountains :: Love Reloaded
I close my eyes, hoping to lose myself in the darkness but strangely, all I see are colors. How’s that even possible? I'm going blind from my arousal.
— Alexandra Iff, More Than Just a Pair of Pumps
Love is to give, commit, and trust completely; the courage to be vulnerable without the omniscience of another's virtue.
— Ken Poirot
Hearts aren’t as smart as heads. Ain’t that the truth?
— Melissa Foster, Catching Cassidy
There are times when, that which we wish to be, will come to be, when we let it be.
— Tom Althouse
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself, is that what love is?
— Judi Picoult
Gifts are temporary and often forgotten
—  love is forever and always remembered.
Love boldly.Love boundlessly.Love benevolently.Love blessedly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy.
— Hafsa Shah
Kindness is a rose,love is a bundle.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One who has great love has great power.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
My heart leaps with euphoria (gladness), whilst my mind send sweet memories and imaginations of you, through the deep secret winding passages of my being, bursting into my soul with profound whispers of "I Love You".
— Anonymous
I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
— Ellen Hopkins, Burned
Love pushes boundaries and crosses every line you weren't meant to cross.
— Auliq Ice
Most of the girls I've met since moving here have failed to ignite any modicum of enduring interest. Of course, I've dated; I'm seventeen years old and as horny as the next guy.
— Siobhan Davis, Lovestruck
My heart immersed in the depths of your eyes.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn.
— H R Brock
What people think is relative just like who people love.
— Anonymous
First love never dies, but True love can bury them alive.
— Mich
When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again.
— Auliq Ice
Know that when I kiss your foreheadand not your lips it is to let you knowthat I kiss your dreams, your imagination and your intellect.When I kiss your lips you will know that I will be appealing to your body,asking to consummate desire and passion that overwhelms us leaving our souls breathless.
— William Osorio Nicolas
No Love will remain unfulfilled.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.
— Maggie Nelson
Love isn't making others into the people we imagine they should be. It's about letting people be themselves
— Katherine Longshore, Brazen
If I you were able to count all the snowflakes outside
—  you would get a small fraction of how much i love you
The bond of sisterly love is much tighter than the bond which binds men.
— Dixie Waters
Reflections in the heart are more pronounced than those we view in a mirror.
— Dixie Waters
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.""Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself
— André Breton
Christmas is love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Making love is not necessary to make love.
— Dixie Waters
We are Love. We are lovable. We are loved. We Love.
— Darina Stoyanova
Notice the people you encounter in this life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
May be its hard for others, but not for me; I am strong enough to deal with it. For my love’ I am ready to sacrifice my pleasures, rest, everything I have and my entire life for nothing in return; not even a single simile and with all that feelings; I am not sure that, “it is love” is it love?
— Rana Zahid Iqbal
I'll tell you a secret: Close your eyes and open your heart.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Despite every objection; they sank into insignificance - and in the end, love, was the answer to everything.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Do you really want him to get over you?
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
Neither here, nor there. But everywhere.
— Lang Leav
Those who truly love you will always be there for you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love and seek for knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jeremias, my soul mate, I will forever love you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am consumed by love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A soft touch, a light scrub, a hard squeeze, a tight hug, a long stare, a beautiful conversation are just a few among many trivial influential love actions that develop peoples emotions.
— Victor Manan Nyambala
how beautiful I ever had you..although 'ever' but I'm pretty happy
— Nabil Marzuq Khairi
The touch of his fingertips on my back is like a great cellist brushing the strings of his instrument, or a watchmaker turning a tiny screw invisible to the naked eye. The feeling is erotic, magical, and I just want to go home and go to bed.
— Chloe Thurlow, Snow Falls Softly
Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
It's true that: No pain, no gain. The harder one works, the better the results. I have worked very hard to have you and I promise to retain you forever.
— Anthony Kimani
I kiss your heart because those before me have scarred it.
— Kevin Fuller
Love brings the turnaround.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
I'll give you the sun, when rain cleans your tears.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
Love remains forever young in their moments of togetherness.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The thing about love is one can never define it exactly. And as much of a mystery as that is and as familiar it is when we acknowledge it, words just aren't enough. So we find ourselves scratching the walls while our hair is falling out. Then we can't live without it. We become addicts.
— Kevin Fuller
Every day I give you my heart. At the end of the year, there are hundreds of hearts, which I will give to you. Heart to heart only for you, and even more hearts - in a heartless time.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
True love is like a long quiet river.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Love requires no words.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I love youMy life stretched over a bridgeI need youMy life stretched over you
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
Three magic words come out of your mouth; Maybe accidentally pronounced. Your eyes said, I love you; with Bliss as my ears have heard it.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
My heart ist meltingI love youDrops of Gold
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Love is the highest moral standard.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
Love defines a peaceful world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Holding the moon in your hands, velvety, your heart beats on my lips.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Sunrise gave birth to our love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Love is a ray of sunshine in the days of darkness.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
You're my mirror image? No, I don't think so. I'm I. And you're you. & together, we are inseparable.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Love is the most beautiful sacrifice.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough in the dark days.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Love is the first wisdom in life.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
True love begins with an innocent smile.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
With love, you can see the stars.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough and in the dark days.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Each time, at the end of the day, we know it well: If we do not have love we would be nothing.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
Your charming smile makes me travel to the realm of the stars.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Among many people with you
—  but I only can see you.
I will hide my heart in your heart and you will hide your heart in my heart; and no evil eye will hear it, our common heart, as familiar, in unison, it throbs to the world.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
With the lightness of being above the clouds gently wrapped in wings of love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
At the turning point of our emotions, there lay a magic milestone of hope, before us.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
Love from the heart shows itself in meekness and not in tumultuous drumbeats.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
And finally
—  and above all - love will conquer.
Where there is love, there is no war.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Nothing can separate two hearts that have found each other
—  together they will walk into eternity.
Sublime delicacy of rose; how wonderful your heart, smells of our love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
And finally, and above all love will conquer.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Lovely as the morning
—  I want to kiss your heart until the next darkness will redeem its promise.
Love from blue waves
—  rest your eyes on my lips.
I'm not a magician of dreams
—  I'm just a dreamer.I'm not going to enchant you with dreams
Love is not far away,Love is just a heartbeat from you.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Love deeply without any fear of being hurt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God gave us the pure love; and so, I have become deeply in your heart, a part of you.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Your scented tears on white roses - Love is crying in a good way.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Love is a pure force without claim to power.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
There, Where love lives is Heaven on earth.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
What would man be without sunshine and the power of love
—  he would be nothing.
True love withstands the storms of life.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Love has no expiration date; if your are willing, she will accompany you until your last day.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
There are no obstacles for lovers.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Every love gives you wings.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
And so we are seeds of love, scattered across the world, from the hands of the wind.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
Love is the color of peace.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
The person who feels secure, loved, safe and happy inside will have a secure, safe and happy life. Your inner integrity will be matched by those around you.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
Whenever I heard it, whoever said it to me, it felt the same. Like it didn't really mean anything. Because they weren't saying it about the real me. But what if they were? What if everyone who ever said they loved you meant it?How could they? How could any of them have ever meant it when no one but you has ever really known the real me?
— Bella Andre, Kiss Me Like This
Our love is a rainbow
—  which leads to freedom.
Let my heart fall into your life. Let my heart fall into your hand. Let it fall, let it fall - my heart to your heart.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
True love is a star surrounded by stars.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Skin to skinSalt on your skinWave after wave An eruption of emotions.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
An overdose of love is logically consistent curative.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Your eyes are my stars of happiness.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Close your EYES,hear the RAIN, and listen to my WORDS.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully live to love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
True love freely gives.Love is costless, so give it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are capable of loving the unlovable. The grace of God gives you the power to love.It also takes conscious effort and decision to choice to love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Born from sea foam; high up to the tops of the waves, on the trail of love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Born from sea foam high up to the tops of the waves on the trail of love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
The power of your smile accompanied me on my way; but your tears, the tears of concern for me, I will carry forever in my heart.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
You have a heart, you have a face,You are a girl with a grace,You are simple, you are true,You are catching and I love you.
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
Love Is Learning Process....To keep Loving One With All Your Heart You Have To Keep Feeling Things You Can Dream More Then One Beyonds.....
— khode manish v
Last night, in silent hours - where the gentle sea touched our skin - I have found the love of your thinking.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
In a sweet way, my thoughts, are embedded in love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Only courage to fragility makes our hearts melt with fervent love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
And at night, when it breathes delicately from silence - I love listening to your voice. It is like a heavenly graceful singing of thousands of stars.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Love frees my thoughts and deeds.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Allow your relationship to progress at its own pace. Enjoy each moment of each date, the courtship, the friendship, and the natural progression to commitment. If it is meant to be, it will happen.
— Pamela Cummins
Just your smile can touch the moon.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
If love disappear forever, a veil of sadness, falls over the valley of dried tears.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The whole world may tell you how beautiful you are but there is that one person whose compliment will make you feel like a million bucks!
— Lorato Mosimakoko
Life can be mysterious- particularly if your in love.
— Ronald Hadrian, Rosaline I love you, but don't tell your dad
A snowflake falls, so tenderly on your lips, I have learned to love this winter.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Beguiling, without doubt; the month of May scatters flowers - electrifying attributes, demanding and longing for the smell of love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
From a distance I finally see, I completely understand, As I move forward to take my second step, Followed by a third step, Oh! You are easy to love like a sponge.
— Alon Calinao Dy, Best Love Poems Collection
Rotating movement of the morning; in thy virgin heart, a piece of eternity breathed.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
In pure innocent love, there is no longer present contradictions.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
A gently touching hand is an expression of trust.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
It shall dwell roses, from your sweet tears in my heart.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
My eyes fall on you like a singing veil from the days of rebirth.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
On the edge of timelessness, hand in hand with you, a sea of flowers caressed.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
My lips are kissing your heart every moment of our lives.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I've fallen into your life, like a red ROSE from another world.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Love is a red rose
—  it grows and grows out of the turmoil of the time.
Love met with respect and grand style Love - A flirtation with true lovers of love had taken his salvific beginning.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
You are my star in the days of darkness
—  and light up my heart at all times.
Without love, the world would be a heap of ruins.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
My love for you is everywhere. Though we're a thousand miles apart, I love you and you know it. I love you because you're different from the girls I've met before.
— Alon Calinao Dy, Best Love Poems Collection
With true love until life begins.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
True love needs no words.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
The frequency of your heart receives love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
To date a girl for her look is like eating a bird for it song
— Michael Ikechukwu john
We may have lots of differences,We may not be the perfect couple.But in-spite of those differences,In-spite of those imperfection,We are always at our best for each other...
— NerD_Seyer
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
— Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
— Murray N. Rothbard
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
— John Maynard Keynes
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is sh
— John F. Kennedy
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
— John Green
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
— Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.
— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement of our own life according to our own conscience, is the air in which alone moral sense grows and in which moral values are daily recreated in the free decision of the individual. Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one's own conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others, and to bear the consequences of one's own decision, are the very essence of any morals which deserve the name.
— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.
— Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
— Adam Smith
The word 'truth' itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.
— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Probably it is true enough that the great majority are rarely capable of thinking independently, that on most questions they accept views which they find ready-made, and that they will be equally content if born or coaxed into one set of beliefs or another. In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance only for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved. It certainly does not justify the presumption of any group of people to claim the right to determine what people ought to think or believe.
— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indign
— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
— Winston S. Churchill
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
— Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. A country in which shooting down unidentified planes "on suspicion" can be seriously considered as a drug-war tactic is not the kind of United States that either you or I want to hand on to future generations.
— Milton Friedman
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
— Thomas Sowell, Knowledge And Decisions
Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.
— Herman E. Daly
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
— Ezra Pound
This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals is not their greater philanthropy, but their greater impatience. The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.
— Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the pie bigger than otherwise possible in the long run. The rich got the bigger slice of the pie all right, but they have actually reduced the pace at which the pie is growing.
— Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.
— Herman E. Daly
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.
— Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction of democracy and which meanwhile can benefit only a minority of the masses who support it. Yet it is this support from the Left of the tendencies toward monopoly which make them so irresistible and the prospects of the future so dark.
— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster.
— John Michael Greer, The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible
— Slavoj Žižek
99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.
— Ron DeLegge II, Gents with No Cents
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
— Wendell Berry
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.
— John Maynard Keynes
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
— Thomas Sowell, Knowledge And Decisions
Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer?A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams.And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.
— Andrew Sheng
If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.
— Robert Skidelsky, Keynes: The Return of the Master
There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: "In the long run we are all dead." And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.
— Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun:a certain amount of difficultyplusa certain amount of your friendsplusa certain amount of interesting strangersplusa certain amount of rewardplusa certain amount of opportunityequaledfun
— Cory Doctorow, For the Win
Machinery which is not used is not capital.
— Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
— Laurence J. Peter
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
— Thomas Sowell, Knowledge And Decisions
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves.
— Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.
— Murray N. Rothbard, Keynes The Man
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door.
— John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society
Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.
— Ivan Illich
In the long run we are all dead.
— John Maynard Keynes
For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.
— Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they ‘true believers’, driven by ideology and faith that free markets will cure underdevelopment, as is often asserted, or do the ideas and theories frequently serve as an elaborate rationale to allow people to act on unfettered greed while still invoking an altruistic motive?
— Naomi Klein
In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.
— Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
— Sam Ewing
need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.
— Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons with elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions--all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced.
— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced....Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken pubic support....When the doubt or fear expressed concerns not the success of a particular enterprise but of the whole social plan, it must be treated even more as sabotage.
— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real.
— Paul Krugman
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.
— Herman E. Daly, For the Common Good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future.
The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in physical terms. All that the theory of the social sciences attempts is to provide a technique of reasoning which assists us in connecting individual facts, but which, like logic or mathematics, is not about the facts. It can, therefore, and this is the second point, never be verified or falsified by reference to facts.
— Friedrich A. Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.
— Thorstein Veblen
As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. The message of the competition/efficiency/marketplace Trinity seems to be that we should drop the idea of ourselves developed over two and a half millennia. We are no longer beings distinguished by our ability to think and to act consciously in order to affect our circumstances. Instead we should passively submit ourselves and our whole civilization -- our public structures, social forms and cultural creativity -- to the abstract forces of unregulated commerce. It may be that most citizens have difficulty with the argument and would prefer to continue working on the idea of dignified human intelligence. If they must drop something, they would probably prefer to drop the economists. 
— John Ralston Saul
The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.
— Kalle Lasn
Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
— John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty
Whether you agree with its policy or not, your dealing with government is not voluntary, but coercive. Government is the very antithesis of ‘free market’.
— Dominic Frisby, Life After the State
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.
— Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
— John  Adams
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine - the special pleading of selfish interests.
— Henry Hazlitt
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.
— Milton Friedman
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.
— Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom, and Sixteen Other Essays and Addresses: Ludwig Von Mises. Also, the Essential Von Mises
By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.
— Albert Marrin, Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives
The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must mean, public non-profit initiative, even if only in redistributing private accumulation. Public decisions aimed at collective social improvement from which all human lives should gain. That is the basis of progressive policy—not maximising economic growth and personal incomes. Nowhere will this be more important than in tackling the greatest problem facing us this century, the environmental crisis. Whatever ideological logo we choose for it, it will mean a major shift away from the free market and towards public action, a bigger shift than the British government has yet envisaged. And, given the acuteness of the economic crisis, probably a fairly rapid shift. Time is not on our side.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.
— Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics
When the solution to a given problem doesn’t lay right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no solution exists. But history has shown again and again that such assumptions are wrong. This is not to say the world is perfect. Nor that all progress is always good. Even widespread societal gains inevitably produce losses for some people. That’s why the economist Joseph Schumpeter referred to capitalism as “creative destruction.” But humankind has a great capacity for finding technological solutions to seemingly intractable problems, and this will likely be the case for global warming. It isn’t that the problem isn’t potentially large. It’s just that human ingenuity—when given proper incentives—is bound to be larger. Even more encouraging, technological fixes are often far simpler, and therefore cheaper, than the doomsayers could have imagined. Indeed, in the final chapter of this book we’ll meet a band of renegade engineers who have developed not one but three global-warming fixes, any of which could be bought for less than the annual sales tally of all the Thoroughbred horses at Keeneland auction house in Kentucky.
— Steven D. Levitt, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.
— John Stuart Mill
The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.
— Craig Dilworth, Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind
Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.
— Charles P. Kindleberger, Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises