Paul Krugman Quotes

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Paul Krugman

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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Power
  • The Right Thing

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Same

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Power

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Power
  • Man
  • Free

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Power
  • Nature

• To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Career

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • World
  • Power
  • Value

• Monty Python never directly said, 'We're liberals' - they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that's their job - pointing out what other people might not notice and going, 'Yoo-hoo, over here.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Job
  • Power

• No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Friends

• Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

  

  Tacitus
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Uncertainty

• The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • Model
  • Inspired

• India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Power

• When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Spiritual

• In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

  

  Charles Kendall Adams
  • World
  • Heart
  • Fire

• The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Myself
  • Anthropology
  • Irresponsibility

• Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Politic