“When it becomes serious, you have to lie”

-Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the EU Commission

I believe in free speech, so long as the state is allowed to arrest those who say the wrong things.

-Titania McGrath

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

-F.A. Hayek

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

-Thomas Sowell

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

-Thomas Sowell

Is that progress from Stonehenge to the Supertalls (skyscrapers) … Is that a net positive for us as a people?

-Kai Ryssdal on APM’s Marketplace 4/11/22 20mins

Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.

-Mike Jeffries (former CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch)

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies

-Winston Churchill

I am the heart of the city and its people; the marker that defines Emaar’s ambition and Dubai’s shining dream.

-Exerpt from the Burj Khalifa buildings foundation poem.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale

– I. F. Stone