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People Quotes by Walter E. Williams
- The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary…
- Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody…
- How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike…
- What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their…
- Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in…
- Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to…
- Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything…
- I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a…
- Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of…
- There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help…
- Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons,…
- Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral.…
- The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are…
- The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to associate in ways…
- When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million…
- How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal;…
- Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle