If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite… — Benjamin Zablocki Copy Share Image
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with… — William Peter Hamilton Copy Share Image
As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up… — Raymond C. Hoiles Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image