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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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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the…
— Herbert Hoover
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We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly…
— Jonathan D. Morris
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Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights…
— Sheldon Richman
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens…
— Ayn Rand
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Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and…
— Lawrence Hunter
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My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend…
— George Grosz
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion…
— Herbert Hoover
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I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If…
— Milton Friedman
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Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.
— Ron Paul
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Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the…
— Nick Clegg
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