A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
– Charles Wheelan
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- Mankind is flawed and to place absolute faith in it and it’s understandings is flawed itself. – Chase Racek
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- The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives. – Robert Dallek
- The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market. – Iimani David
- We’re interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we’d market them too – Alan Sugar
- The thing is, If you try to market to everyone, then you successfully market to no one. – Amber Hurdle
- A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market. – Vijay Kedia
- Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself – instead it has everything to do with you. – Simon Gray
- Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods. – Onyi Anyado
- We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. – Franklin D Roosevelt
- Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. – William Beveridge
- The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn’t easy. – Mary Connealy
- To make or not to make a choice is still considered you made a choice as it was choice to choose or not to choose to make a choice. – Auliq Ice
- When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. – Barack Obama
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. – GK Chesterton
- Life is full of alternatives but no choice. – Patrick White
- Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards. – Joseph Wheelan
- To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte. – TaNehisi Coates
- It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy. – Rose Wilder Lane
- Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
- Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives. – Maurice Chevalier
- It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one. – Marcel Proust
- Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices. – Steven Magee
- Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It’s mind-boggling. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. – Ludwig von Mises
- The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. – Harry Browne
- A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – HL Mencken
- It’s my choice to be beautiful. It’s my choice to be ugly. And it’s my choice to decided what those words actually mean. – Virginia Petrucci
- Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. – Alfred E Smith
- The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts. – Charbel Tadros
- Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. – Reinhold Niebuhr
- A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. – Theodore Roosevelt