"Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling."

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Source : Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Frank Chodorov

#Art Quotes #Law Quotes #Society Quotes

“There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.”
“May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.”
“Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.”
“What do you mean she left me the embryos? I'm supposed to get the cat.”

Source : Susan Mallery (2010). “Finding Perfect”, p.7, HQN Books
“You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.”
“i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...”
“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“People build fame because they're pretty sometimes.Most of the time. This is what the audience wants, apparently. I don't necessarily agree, but I cannot go against it. But it's true that our industry is just full of people who actually really look good. It's the criteria of our generation.”

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