“No other economic system has brought any country from poverty to prosperity. A free-market system is the only type that offers a workable alternative and resilient counterforce to the failed -isms and systems discussed in the previous chapter.” — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“there is no thought in the Bible that poor people would become permanent recipients of gifts of money, year after year, or would become… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and one billion people are mired… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property.” — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“The typical poverty program creates dependency, robs people of dignity, stifles initiative, and can foster a “What have you done for me lately?” sense… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“A free-market system is one in which economic production and consumption are determined by the free choices of individuals rather than governments, and this… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“...human beings glorify God by achieving much more than survival. We glorify Him by understanding and ruling over the creation and then producing more… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“some nations have tried to bring about more economic equality in economically harmful ways, not through opening up free markets but through brute use… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“No other economic system has brought any country from poverty to prosperity. A free-market system is the only type that offers a workable alternative… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“The results have been devastating. Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurs continually demonstrate that faith and imagination are the most important capital goods in a changing economy, and that wealth is a product less… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“poor. They argue that greater economic equality is a matter of simple justice that governments should enforce. We certainly agree with the goal of… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
