Henry Hazlitt Quotes

“Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man.”

“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.”

“When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.”

“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.”