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Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

We have one asset, and that's people.

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

What you manage in business is people

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

When men are employed they are best contented.

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Yelling is a form of publishing

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

28. It is a capital evil with respect to the question We are discussing to take for granted that the one class of society is of itself hostile to the other, as if nature had set rich and poor against each other to fight fiercely in implacable war. This is so abhorrent to reason and truth that the exact opposite is true; for just as in the human body the different members harmonize with one another, whence arises that disposition of parts and proportion in the human figure rightly called symmetry, so likewise nature has commanded in the case of the State that the two classes mentioned should agree harmoniously and should properly form equally balanced counterparts to each other.