Daker

“Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies. Its fundamental concern is with the material standard of living of society as a whole and how that is affected by particular decisions made by individuals and institutions. One of the ways of doing this is to look at economic policies and economic systems in terms of the incentives they create, rather than simply the goals they pursue. This means that consequences matter more than intentions—and not just the immediate consequences, but also the longer run repercussions of decisions, policies, and institutions.”
― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become a cliché.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left Of It

“It goes without saying that the artists sympathised not with the actual working classes but with their own idea of the working classes,”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left Of It