Quotes of: Rand Keyword

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

Benjamin Tucker

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

Camille Paglia

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Daniel Keys Moran

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

bell hooks

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

Jonathan Raymond

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

Paul Krugman

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

Samuel Alexander

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Thomas Piketty

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

Daniel Kahneman

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Douglass North

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

Gary Becker

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Corita Kent

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

Christina Romer

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Irving Fisher

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

Daniel Yergin

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Ellsworth Huntington

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

Ellsworth Huntington

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

Ellsworth Huntington

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Ellsworth Huntington

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Benoit Mandelbrot

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Benoit Mandelbrot