Quotes About The Invisible Hand

#1. While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

Herman E. Daly

#2. Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

Tyler Cowen

#3. The invisible hand never picks up the check.

Kim Stanley

#4. The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

Dinesh D'Souza

#5. Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive ... Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.

Shawn Lawrence Otto

#6. As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.

Pierre Trudeau

#7. He is the author of more than sixty books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of Heaven, Truths We Confess, The Truth of the Cross, and The Prayer of the Lord. He also served as general editor of The Reformation Study Bible and

R.C. Sproul

#8. We need to crush the Invisible Hand. The economy isn't a natural phenomenon. It is just a tool or a mean, that should be dedicated to one only goal; the pursuit of global prosperity.

Jean Ziegler

#9. The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

Amitava Kumar

#10. Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.

Orrin Woodward

#11. Tragedy, after all, is the invisible hand that spawns reflection, and reflection bears its fruit in the deepening of one's character.

Richard Harris

#12. The other thing? You mean the invisible hand on my bells and whistle? Yeah, I don't need anyone knowing that shit. Sir.

K.F. Breene

#13. The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

David Harvey

#14. No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency

George Washington

#15. I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

John Maynard Keynes

#16. The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

Milton Friedman

#17. The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

Mitt Romney

#18. The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

Joseph Stiglitz

#19. These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago.

Milton Friedman

#20. There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.

Bryant McGill

#21. Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.

Arthur W. Pink

#22. The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible ...

Egon Friedell

#23. each person 'intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention'. Yet

Matt Ridley

#24. Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.

Jeff Greenfield

#25. Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

Andrew Murray

#26. Dark night lay on my eyes, like a veil of black cloves - dust on my feet, at the beginning of the path of knowledge.
Tracer from an invisible hand, a rainbow, fell in my thoughts - I encountered the truth; and truth shall be my light until the end of days.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#27. In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men.
It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain.

Toba Beta

#28. He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that even his eye could see, and trusted confidently in nothing but what his hand could touch. This is the calamity of men whose spiritual part dies out of them ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#29. The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#30. A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

Isaac Babel

#31. Before I can respond, he takes his hand from behind his back. Holds it out to me. And I break, into a million invisible pieces.
He looks up from me to the sunflower in his hand and back again. "Um...

Jessi Kirby

#32. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

Adam Smith

#33. I turned, painting in hand, to show it to her, and then realized she wasn't there. Or - she was there and she wasn't. Part of her was there, but it was invisible. The invisible part was the important part. This was something I hadn't understood before.

Donna Tartt

#34. I can't help but trip out about how similar my life is to 'Room.' It's me wanting to stay in my own little bubble and remain anonymous and invisible and at the same time needing to step up to this hand that I've been given.

Brie Larson

#35. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

Miguel De Unamuno

#36. Democracy isn't the work of the market's invisible hand; it is the work of real hands.

Naomi Klein

#37. The vodka warmed his body nicely, like an invisible hand stroking him in places no one had touched in years.

Sharon Guskin

#38. The belief that success was something that just happened to you, that you just did your thing, and if you were deserving, it was bestowed by the same invisible hand that ensured that the deli would have milk to drink and sandwiches to buy.

Adelle Waldman

#39. Even Adam Smith's "invisible hand" occasionally needs a slap on the wrist.

Bill Mech

#40. As in the case of the economy, an 'invisible hand' will often be a better cultivator of ideas and allocator of effort. The challenge for intelligence officials in the Information Age is to understand how to integrate these indirect mechanisms into their operations

Allan E. Goodman

#41. the egalitarian lifestyles of hunter-gatherers exist because the individuals care a lot about status. Individuals in these societies end up roughly equal because everyone is struggling to ensure that nobody gets too much power over him or her. This is invisible-hand egalitarianism.

Paul Bloom

#42. If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.

Joseph Campbell