“Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.”

They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.

The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Activity clutter comes from the things we do that take up precious time and sap our energy but don’t make a meaningful difference to our personal, professional, or even company’s mission.