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All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power… — Willard Gaylin
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of… — Ward Churchill
How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the… — Unknown Author
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public… — Noam Chomsky
Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until… — Unknown Author
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on… — Theodore Dalrymple
We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers… — Molly Ivins
Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power. — Amartya Sen
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the uncertainty in the… — Kenneth Arrow
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make… — Philip E. Agre
Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through… — Philip E. Agre
Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for… — Unknown Author
I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make… — George Soros
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny… — George Orwell
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is… — Paul Krugman
Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her… — Peter Singer
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do. — Benjamin Barber
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look… — Thomas Frank
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism,… — Michael Lind
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power… — Robert Kuttner
[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund… — Paul Krugman
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it… — John Ramsay McCulloch
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an… — Laurence Tribe

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