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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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I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have…
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My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
— William S. Burroughs
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Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie…
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Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us…
— Deepak Chopra
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You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so…
— Clay Shirky
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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,…
— Milton Friedman
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It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should…
— Jacques Barzun
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In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks…
— John C. Dvorak
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
— Jimmy Carter
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Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have…
— Ian Kershaw
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