“I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.”
Edith Clara Summerskill
“Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.”
Paul A. Samuelson
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Thomas Sowell
“Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses”
Lionel Charles Robbins
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe' abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity”
Camille Paglia
“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.”
Clare Boothe Luce