Henry Calvert Simons famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.
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Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement.
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Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress.
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The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms.
-- Henry Calvert Simons
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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To be a leader means to be able to move masses
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The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
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The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
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