An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

—Nicholas Chamfort

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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

—Nicholas Chamfort

reality posturing

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Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

—Lester Brown

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

—Laurence J. Peter

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

—Chester Bowles

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.

—Barack Obama

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11 Jul 2015 Added