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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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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.…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
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It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot…
— Giorgio Armani
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When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which…
— Ludwig von Mises
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In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or…
— Ayn Rand
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
— Milton Friedman
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe.…
— Leon Trotsky
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In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is…
— Jane Fonda
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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
— Albert Einstein
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Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
— James Connolly
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The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
— Karl Marx
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People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is…
— Unknown Author
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Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change.…
— Peter Drucker
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