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- The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is…
- Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can…
- Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have…
- Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
- A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom.…
- The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
- A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
- Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom,…
- The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum…
- The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become… — J. J. Abrams
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden