We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.
In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.
