Source: Principles,, p. 164-5; cited in: Randall G. Holcombe, Great Austrian Economists, p. 90
“The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated.”
Source: Principles,, p. 67; cited in: Randall G. Holcombe, Great Austrian Economists, p. 90
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Carl Menger 6
founder of the Austrian School of economics 1840–1921Related quotes
“For in order to command well, we should know how to submit; and he who submits with a good grace will some time become worthy of commanding.”
Nam et qui bene imperat, paruerit aliquando necesse est, et qui modeste paret, videtur qui aliquando imperet dignus esse.
Book III, section 2; translation by Francis Barham
De Legibus (On the Laws)
“Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?”
Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter XI, Judge Holden
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“In order to reach some heights, I don’t lower them: I raise them higher.”
Para poder alcanzar ciertas alturas, no las bajo: las levanto más.
Voces (1943)
Source: “Evolutionary Theory and Theological Ethics” (2012), p. 250
To Leon Goldensohn (25 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews", Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellatel (2004).