Karl Polanyi Quotes

There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.

Karl Polanyi

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• But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Natural
  • Rights
  • Recycling

• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Natural
  • Old
  • Admiration

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • More
  • Market
  • Far

• Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Helping
  • Working

• The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

  

  Washington Irving
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Natural

• Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Things
  • Public
  • Courses

• I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Help

• There's a witch under this hair. The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • World
  • Business
  • Character

• The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • World
  • Business
  • Character

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from the universe that this guy, Todd Brotzman, played by Elijah Wood, is the guy to help him through this mystery. But of course, that doesn't really explain the breadth of it.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Help
  • Guy

• If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • America
  • Today
  • Market

• Niall: Help! Louis: Did anyone hear that? Niall: Help!! Louis: SOMEBODY NEEDS HELP! RAAH! (Pulls open shirt and has Superman shirt underneath) Superman is here!!

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Help
  • Needs
  • Helping

• Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Present
  • Actors
  • Natural

• When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Help
  • Positive
  • Confidence

• The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • School
  • Courses

• Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Life
  • Choices

• Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did not know that adult humans dream 90 minutes per night, and that newborns spend eight hours per day dreaming (out of their 16 hours of sleep). REM sleep helps grow the brain!

  

  Charles McPhee
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

  

  David Parnas
  • Should
  • Computer
  • Selling

• There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.

  

  Karl Polanyi
  • Helping
  • Natural
  • Market