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• 05.15.11
  Bernard Lietaer Quote – While economic textbooks claim that … Bernard Lietaer | (0)

  While economic textbooks claim that people and corporations are competing for markets and resources, I claim that in reality they are competing for money - using markets and resources to do so. So designing new money systems really amounts to redesigning the target that orients much human effort. Furthermore, I believe that greed and competition are not a result of immutable human temperament; I have come to the conclusion that greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we are using. For example, we can produce more than ...

  Tagged: banks, government, money, poverty
  
• 02.14.11
  Robert M. Pirsig Quote – We do need a return to individual integrity … Robert Pirsig | (0)

  My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. God, I don't want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality out. These can be left alone for a while. There's a place for them but they've got to be built on a foundation of Quality within the individuals involved. We've had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it, and now it's just ...

  Tagged: government, individualism, productivity, quality, rich, work
  
• 02.11.11
  Thomas Hobbes Quote – life of man, solitary, poor … Thomas Hobbes | (0)

  Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man. For "war" consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently know: and therefore the notion of "time" is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul ...

  Tagged: government, life, peace, poor, war
  
• 02.06.11
  Warren Buffet Quote – If we find a company we … Warren Buffett | (0)

  If we find a company we like, the level of the market will not really impact our decisions.  We will decide company by company.  We spend essentially no time thinking about macroeconomic factors.  In other words, if somebody handed us a predictions by the most revered intellectual on the subject, with figures for unemployment or interest rates, or whatever it might be for the next two years, we would not pay any attention to it.  We simply try to focus on businesses that we think we understand and where we like the price and management.  If we see anything that ...

  Tagged: government, investing, stock picking
  
• 02.04.11
  Adrian Rogers Quote – You cannot legislate the poor … Adrian Rogers | (2)

  You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear ...

  Tagged: government, handouts, poor, poverty, taxes, wealth, work
  
• 02.02.11
  Voltaire Quote – In general, the art of government … Voltaire | (0)

  En général, l’art du gouvernement consiste à prendre le plus d’argent qu’on peut à une grande partie des citoyens, pour le donner à une autre partie. Translates to: In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire ((Dictionnaire philosophique, p. 136))

  Tagged: government, money, redistribution, taxes
  
• 01.30.11
  Richard Feynman Quote – There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy … Richard Feynman | (0)

  There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Phillips Feynman ((Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics, Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher, pg. xx))

  Tagged: debt, government
  
• 01.19.11
  Samuel Johnson Quote – A decent provision for the … Samuel Johnson | (0)

  A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. - Samuel Johnson ((The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol II by James Boswell))

  Tagged: civilization, government, poor
  

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