Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-06-06 Jun 4, 2021Appearances often are deceiving.~ AesopBecause of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many Citizens, because of their respect for what appears to be law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance.~ United States Supreme CourtThe proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.~ Adam Smith Jun 3, 2021The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life.~ John SilberWhen you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThe smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.~ Noam Chomsky Jun 2, 2021The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.~ Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe 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 RobinsonThe study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.~ John Kenneth Galbraith Jun 1, 2021The devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!~ Charles BaudelaireMan is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil. Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it, he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it, insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems.~ Konnilyn G. FeigMany people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.~ Louis Kronenberger May 31, 2021For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.~ Harry BrowneThe sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.~ James MadisonThe study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.~ Paul Bede Johnson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print