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

• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Character
  • 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

• The Churches as Churches have always been and cannot fail to be institutions not only alien to, but directly hostile towards, Christ's teaching.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Alien

• There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Senate
  • Rule
  • Governing

• That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Changed
  • Remains
  • Perishes

• I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Evil
  • Planet
  • Nuclear Weapons

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

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Politic