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Own Quotes by Milton Friedman
- Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to…
- Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the…
- Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense…
- When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends…
- Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So…
- What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to…
- I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what…
- The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role…
- Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
- Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
- The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities…
- I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense…
- For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of…
- A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov