Murray Rothbard Quotes

What is so terrible about transaction costs? On what basis are they considered the ultimate evil, so that their minimization must override all other considerations of choice, freedom, and justice?

Murray Rothbard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1926 - January 7, 1995

Topics

FreedomJusticeEvilChoiceTerrible

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

Joe Wright

GoodArtActionPoliticalBadFilm

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.

Jennifer Aniston

TimeI AmCrazyThinkHellTrying

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Steven Wright

LifeMeRealityComedyObserving

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

Rod Stewart

DoneNeverAnythingScandalous

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.

Lloyd Cutler

TogetherJobLawSmallDownTurn

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

Logic

I AmPeopleMeProudHellYou

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

Joshua Foer

FamilyTodayHeartFriends And Family

Chicago's always a friendly place to me.

Dennis Farina

MePlaceChicagoAlwaysFriendly

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

Douglas Sirk

ArtWarEndPhilosophyTryingNew

I don't read fiction at all.

Brent Spiner

FictionRead

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Phyllis Schlafly

NatureFailureHuman NatureHuman

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

Marianne Williamson

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