"But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme……" — Richard Posner
"But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!"
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Richard Posner
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13 Quotes by Richard Posner
Richard Posner has 13 quotes on this site.
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A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works.…
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I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order…
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The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because…
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Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not…
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If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is…
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In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion…
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Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
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MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to…
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I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and…
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It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed…
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Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children…
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More Accuracy Quotes
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with…
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
— Saul Bellow
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
— John Dewey
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
— Harry Vardon
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children…
— Robin Sharma
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance…
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