Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt
Henry Stuart Hazlittwas an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times. He is widely cited in both libertarian and conservative circles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 November 1894
CountryUnited States of America
Henry Hazlitt quotes about
real wages pay
Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.
precious-metal metals ifs
If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.
way employment economics
There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
government giving political
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
hands
What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
dream honesty lying
In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead of automatic currencies based on gold, people are forced to take managed currencies based on guile. Instead of precious metals they hold paper promises whose value falls with every bureaucratic whim. And they are suavely assured that only hopelessly antiquated minds dream of returning to truth and honesty and solvency and gold.
government giving firsts
The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.
justice three capitalist
The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.
mean forgotten ends
Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
mean civilization liberty
The future of human liberty ... means the future of civilization.
needs demand economic
Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.
employment economy inflation
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.