Whom the Gods would destroy, they first put on the cover of Business Week.
-Paul Krugman
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
When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will
– Frédéric Bastiat