Arguing Quote by Milton Friedman Download Open image “When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.” — Milton Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arguing Free market Investing Trends
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market. — James Cook Copy Share Image
“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?! — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Fasting is required, staying away from fighting and arguing and bombing of masjids is still going on. Hatred is still manifested between Sunni and… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I'm a very serious person, but I don't take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue. — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
