Political Economist Quotes

#1. You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Thomas Carlyle

#2. The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

Nassau William Senior

#3. History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

Edward Gibbon

#4. No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

#5. Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. ..I will talk about my dances...when I was onstage I simply forgot about the woman I was and offered everything to God. That is why I was able to undress so easily. At that moment, I was nothing, not even my body. I was just movements communing with the universe.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Denise clung to the feel of his hands as she pushed at her panic. It's okay. You're safe ... and this has got to be the ugliest couch ever.

Jeaniene Frost

#9. There are those that do not realize that one day we all must die. But those that do settle their quarrels.

Dhammapada

#10. All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Richard Hughes

#11. Dreaming, in short, is one of the devices we employ to circumvent repression, one of the main methods of what may be called indirect representation in the mind.

Sigmund Freud

#12. People don't want the debunk, they want the bunk,' Price once noted, a trifle acidly. He

Roger Clarke

#13. I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Megan Fox

#14. This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power ... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.

Michael Shannon

#15. A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Ronald Reagan

#16. I always use the analogy that when you go to a jeans store and put on a new pair of jeans, it's a pair of jeans and they feel different; so, when you're dealing with these sort of costumes it's a very big departure and really does make you feel quite different. But it's wonderful.

Eric Bana

#17. My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

Susan Hayward

#18. We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

Sammy Hagar

#19. You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.

Thomas Sowell

#20. I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

Hans-Werner Sinn

#21. An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Quintilian

#22. I saw right through that rapturous smile. He was a cruel, sadistic son of a bitch.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#23. Aspen would not have the satisfaction of breaking my heart anymore. He'd put me here, and I would just have to take advantage of it.

Kiera Cass

#24. Modernity starts with the state monopoly on violence, and ends with the state's monopoly on fiscal irresponsibility.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#26. I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.

Marc Faber

#27. I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

Dambisa Moyo

#28. Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that "approval voting" allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability.8 Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as he wishes.

Avinash K. Dixit