“Eugene Genovese once remarked that Joseph Schumpeter was ‘that rarest of all human creatures: an economist with a sense of tragedy.’”
Neil Cameron in Policy Options Vol. 21, #2 (March 2000)
In my latest National Post column I predict the policies the federal Tories will endorse in Halifax this weekend.
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the FORTUNE OF OTHERS, and render THEIR HAPPINESS necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it."
Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, quoted by Preston Manning in Fraser Forum July 2001 [a reprint of his address to the Fraser Institute Annual General Meeting].
"Nobody has a right to conduct a trade of which he is ashamed."
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 2, 1936, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #6 (April/May 2004)
"I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge?"
The heroine in J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey, quoted by Edward Tingley in First Things January 2002
"If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat."
St. Paul, 2 Thessalonians 3:10