The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right, and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.

— A.J. Darkholme

Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it. So you have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month, to lodge me in a small, dark room, to clothe me shabbily, to harass me with worry and monotony and unsatisfied longings till you get me to the point when I blush at a look, cry at a word. We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. Isn't it so, Mr Blank? There must be the dark background to show up the bright colors. Some must cry so that the others may be able to laugh the more heartily.

— Jean Rhys

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

— Henry Hazlitt