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484 Economist Quotes

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Based Conditions Division Labor
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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Annihilation Attitude Conquer Destruction
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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

All Things Father Peace Things
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
Arisen Essence Out Peace
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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Anyone Citizen Foreigner Harm
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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Aims Attainment Economic Man
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The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Philosophy Protectionism War Of
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

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

Been Course Disaster History
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Bad Endure Ever Evils
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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Defeat Discard Durable Enough
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War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Boom Cause Destruction Directly
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Brings Earthquake Like Plague
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War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Conquered Conqueror Harmful Only
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Aggression Conquest Convinced Could
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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Among Influence Limit Most
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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Among Fight Must Peace
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Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Becomes Before Elite Innovation
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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Anything Civilization Could History
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Achieved Against Civilization Human
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Against Capitalist Commercial Directed
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All money is a matter of belief.
Belief Matter Money
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Aspirations Poor Poverty Real
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Baker Benevolence Butcher Dinner
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Affected Done Good Known
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Animal Another Bargain Bones
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Finger Happiness Lays Never
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Added Clear ClearConscience Conscience
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Chief Consists Enjoyment Greater
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Any Become Country Demand
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

AllThings First Gold Labour
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Antidote Enthusiasm Great Poison
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Absorb After Changes Detail
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Baffled Cases Facts Imagination
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Ambiguity City Had Pass
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adventure Approach Certain Certainty
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Defense is superior to opulence.
Defense Opulence Superior
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Animals Another Barter Common
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Been Defense Given Innocence
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Generosity Humanity Man Virtue
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Common Complaint Money More
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

AllThings First Labor Money
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Because Conscience Excess Feared
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Far Flourishing Greater Happy
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Altogether Ambition Desire Directing
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Corrects Customers Discipline Effectual
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Any Cheerfulness Christian Course
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

About Administration Barbarism Being
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Active Banking Capital Country
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