"Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless."
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"Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat."
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"There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society"
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"In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse."
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"Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods."
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"Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism."
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"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others."
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"I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?"
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"Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy."
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"It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."
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"So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics."
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"There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy."
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"The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market"
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"The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin."
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"Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no."
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"That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values."
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"It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed."
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"Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable."
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"It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous."
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"Man is a perpetually wanting animal."
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