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Society Quotes by Milton Friedman
- The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
- A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
- What kind of society isn't structured on greed?
- A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom.…
- Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe…
- I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that…
- Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience…
- We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
- Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed?…
- A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
- Society doesn't have values. People have values.
- A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.…
- I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated…
- What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — 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
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi