A Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Ludwig von Mises

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Ludwig von Mises
Austrian - Economist
September 29, 1881 - October 10, 1973

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.

Ayn Rand

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

Joseph Conrad

To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing of ink on paper, followed by throwing away the paper and depositing new ink on more paper - can actually tell us something about reality.

Alan Guth

If you felt like somebody made you feel worthless, that is a lie. You are valuable, you deserve to be treated as a valuable precious treasure.

Lacey Mosley

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

John Burroughs

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.

Ronald Reagan

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Henry David Thoreau

Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Deepak Chopra

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

Michael Cunningham

I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.

Demetrious Johnson

I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.

Ben Katchor

Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own rules, then they become against the creator and what He intended for government to do.

Tony Evans

When I was applying for a central government scholarship to study an art form, I saw that there was space to write the names of the institution and the guru we wanted to study with. For singing, dancing and folk songs, you could name a guru.

Rohini Hattangadi

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