George Reisman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.”
-- George Reisman

#Planning #Finance #Economic
“The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.”
-- George Reisman

#Animal #Opposites #Competition
“The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him”
-- George Reisman

#Government #Average #Parent
“Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.”
-- George Reisman

#Dark #Intelligent #Space
“The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.”
-- George Reisman

#Loss #Socialism #Slave
“Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.”
-- George Reisman

#Civilization #Government #Environmental
“Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.”
-- George Reisman

#Law #Competition #Survival
“Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.”
-- George Reisman

#People #Safety #Needs

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