{"quotes":[{"text":"Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.","author":"Frédéric Bastiat","tags":["anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","collectivism","economics","fallacy","freedom","government","keynesian","libertarian","liberty","logic","politics","reason","self-knowledge","statism","taxation","theft","unseen","voluntaryism"],"id":72246,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastiat"},{"text":"People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","capitalism","coercion","collectivism","communism","evil","force","free-market","freedom","government","idiots","individualism","irrationality","keynesian","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","mafia","non-aggression-principle","socialism","statism","superstition","taxation","theft","useful-idiots","voluntayism"],"id":121580,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"This book (Jarod Kintz's book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that's where I found it while scrounging for lunch. However, I must admit that I haven't read it. I would have, but I am homeless, mainly due to my illiteracy (though Big Government, Keynesian monetary policy, and my struggle with alcoholism certainly played a large role).","author":"Dora J. Arod","tags":["absurd","admission","big-government","books","government","keynes","keynesian","monetary-policy","reading","review"],"id":143778,"author_id":"Dora+J.+Arod"},{"text":"In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["dead","economics-economists","keynes","keynesian","long-run"],"id":199782,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}