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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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...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle…
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Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the…
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Remaining calm no matter what's going on around you is an incredible challenge, but it will liberate your psychic sense and will…
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Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
— Albert Ellis
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Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.
— William Westney
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
— Emily Bronte
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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a…
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