Welfare Economics Quotes

#1. I shake my shoulders to get rid of all my feels. I hate these people. They're so annoying. Except I king of like Silas. Kind of.

Tarryn Fisher

#2. When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.

Brunello Cucinelli

#3. It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray N. Rothbard

#4. One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

Joan Robinson

#5. In secrecy, in silence, a whole race may be destroyed without notice. Whole cultures and species have been destroyed while men smiled and spoke of economics, of employment, of progress, of the welfare of mankind. Is a threat less deadly because it does not scream and rage and threaten force of arms?

Sheri S. Tepper

#6. Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Susan Faludi

#7. A walk in nature is connection with the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

Robert Lucas Jr.

#9. Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Gregory Benford

#10. The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

Ludwig Von Mises

#11. Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and making humans feel better about using animals. We can comfort ourselves with the idea that we are acting in a "humane" way.

Gary L. Francione

#12. Some day I'm going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don't like it I don't care.

Margaret Mitchell

#13. The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

Bruce Lee

#14. I was shrewd like mauma. Even at ten I knew this story about people flying was pure malarkey. We weren't some special people who lost our magic. We were slave people, and we weren't going anywhere. It was later I saw what she meant. We could fly all right, but it wasn't any magic to it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#15. High mandated minimum wages will throw people out of work and onto the welfare rolls in cases where unemployment benefits exist. When it comes to welfare payments, they obey the laws of economics, too. Indeed, if something - like unemployment - is subsidized, more of it will be produced.

Steve Hanke

#16. Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.

Tyler Cowen

#17. There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

Arlen Specter

#18. Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

Lawrence W. Reed