Central Quotes

1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors

Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the… — Milton Friedman
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique… — Milton Friedman
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn… — Llewellyn Rockwell
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. — Abraham Lincoln
Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make… — Kent Nerburn
Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with… — Arthur Eddington
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and… — Carl Sagan
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each… — Ellsworth Huntington
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering… — Francis Crick
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — M. Scott Peck
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. — Ellen Goodman
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. — Mark Kurlansky
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force… — Winston Churchill
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of… — Frances Ford Seymour
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in… — Barack Obama
The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task… — Unknown Author
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a… — Unknown Author
Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and… — Frederick William Faber
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are… — Harry Frankfurt
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied. — Unknown Author
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central… — Thomas Naylor
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but… — Peter Boyle

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