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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 am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He delivered me…
— Unknown Author
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It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
— Jerry Brown
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Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil,…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the…
— Milton Friedman
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We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
— William Allen White
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I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made…
— Ving Rhames
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Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:…
— Gerard K. O'Neill
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The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of…
— Chanakya
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The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is…
— Lewis Mumford
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich…
— George Bernard Shaw
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