Reisman Quotes

#1. The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.

George Reisman

#2. I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

Benny Hinn

#3. Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

Emmet Fox

#4. Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

George Reisman

#5. Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

George Reisman

#6. After all that carryin' on just gettin' him out and keepin' him alive he wanted to crawl back in my womb and well ... I ain't got the room no more even if he could do it. There wasn't space for him in my womb (71).

Toni Morrison

#7. Within a year Ivan Dmitritch was completely forgotten in the town, and his books, heaped up by his landlady in a sledge in the shed, were pulled to pieces by boys.

Anton Chekhov

#8. The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

George Reisman

#9. He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away.

Michael Reisman

#10. Just because the race is worth it, doesn't mean it's easy.

Melissa Bradley

#11. The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him

George Reisman

#12. Because a person's awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever. Order is dependent on the extremely personal values of what a person wants to live with.

Marie Kondo

#13. Taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?

Ravi Zacharias

#14. My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Umberto Eco

#15. I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

Marcel Carne

#16. The fear of God is nothing compared to the fear of tragedy and loss. -The Lady

Brenna Yovanoff

#17. Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

George Reisman

#18. tree in bloom, a white farmhouse - potted basil in the kitchen

Nancy Reisman

#19. I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters.

Art Alexakis

#20. Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead.

Michael Reisman