"Only free people have an incentive to be……" — Harry Browne
"Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes."
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Harry Browne
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102 Quotes by Harry Browne
Harry Browne has 102 quotes on this site.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned…
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it…
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When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something…
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the…
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to…
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be…
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In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it…
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent…
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources…
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly…
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If…
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More Acts Quotes
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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