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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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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the…
— Peter Brimelow
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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests.…
— Marie Curie
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Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,…
— Ayn Rand
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For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness…
— Pope Paul VI
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Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
— Unknown Author
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I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or…
— James C. Collins
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The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and…
— James Madison
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He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
— Confucius
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Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own…
— Henry Spira
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They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put…
— John Hume
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Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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