Compulsion Quote by Henry Hazlitt Download Open image “Government planning always involves compulsion.” — Henry Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compulsion Government Planning
Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan… — Richard I. Winwood Copy Share Image
I don't think like a central planner. We think in terms of a regime of freedom. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us? — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Good planning is what the British people expects the Government to do. — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The analysis of our illustrations has taught us another incidental lesson. This is that, when we study the effects of various proposals, not merely… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“the desperate need to get back to normal housing and other living conditions stimulated increased efforts. But this does not mean that property destruction… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
