"What kind of society isn't structured on greed?" — Milton Friedman
"What kind of society isn't structured on greed?"
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Milton Friedman
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195 Quotes by Milton Friedman
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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…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society…
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use…
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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…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism…
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once…
— Kevin Bacon
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
— Edward Abbey
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed.…
— Joe Biden
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
— Aesop
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is…
— Samuel Butler
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
— Eric Cantona
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