System Quotes

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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who… — Friedrich August von Hayek
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… — Samuel Johnson
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions… — Ravi Zacharias
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to… — Nicholas A. Christakis
If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded… — Donny Deutsch
To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire… — Ludwig von Mises
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should… — Ludwig von Mises
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who… — Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure… — Ayn Rand
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly… — John Maynard Keynes
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our… — Dan Quayle
Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and… — Pat Buchanan
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was… — Milton Friedman
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and… — Thomas Jefferson
For chemistry is no science form'd Ã priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from… — Herman Boerhaave
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner

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