“The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.” MeanSocialProcessResultsImpossibleEconomicPerfectionAvailableInstanceGoodsQuantityInherentIrrationalUnlimitedConstraints Author:Thomas Sowell
“There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.” MayImportantDoneProblemEconomicFieldsSeriousHarmInstanceEmploymentSuperstitionsInflationMagnitude Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.” MayMadeCountryPoliticalStrongSocialPerfectRightsProgressEconomicSeriousAreasEnormousCardsInstanceReportsImplementationLagPolitical RightsReport Cards Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official "global warming" storyline but also the connections between these instances, and the overall scheme of deception that the individual artifices appear calculated to reinforce.” TogetherIndividualExistenceEconomicAuthorityEvidenceConnectionsRelationInstanceDeceptionOfficialsGlobal WarmingFraudSchemesArtificeStorylineDraftingProsecutingMemorandum Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
“Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensIdeasReasonProblemPoliticalUsedLanguageClassCasesHappenedEconomicClimateDebateInstanceBoardsGasGrainCapturedExaggeratedBad Ideas Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
“Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.” AmericaSocialAudienceIssuesEnvironmentEconomicMessagesHollywoodInstanceAppealsProgressiveHollywood MoviesEconomic Issues Author:Adam McKay
“There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance after World War II - with a giant army, an enormous population, and its globally superior economic power. This role is quite different for Germany today.” WorldWellsDifferentWarStatesTodayCertainRolesEconomicExampleArmyWesternPopulationEnormousSuperiorsInstanceWar Of The WorldsGiantsGermanyWorld War IiWorld War IDominationHistoricAlliancesEconomic Power Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski