Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple.

Economics is the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.

Heaven does not create one person above or below another.

-- Born 1835

I shall run wild for six months to a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

子供には物を与えるな、苦労をさせよ

-- Nogi Maresuke

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

-- Joan Robinson

Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means.

-- Robert Owen