"When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published."

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Source : Fritz Machlup (2013). “Essays on Hayek”, p.50, Routledge

Fritz Machlup

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“The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.”
“No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.”
“Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a prÃ©cis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.”
“The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.”
“We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel.”
“Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.”
“Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.”
“What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.”

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