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If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
Milton Friedman1912–2006America’s Drug Forum interview (1991)
- Economics
- Government
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.
Milton Friedman1912–2006The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory (1970)
- Economics
- Money
Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 “The Power of the Market”, p. 13
- Economics
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
- Government
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm1900–1980Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 7
- Success
Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Art of Loving (1956)
- Economics
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost1874–1963
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost1874–1963Attributed to Frost in Harvey Shapiro “Story of the Poem”, The New York Times (January 15, 1961), sec. SM, p. 6; and in Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981), p. 208
In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.
Francis Fukuyamaborn 1952Liberalism and its Discontents (2020)
- Government
That’s the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there’s not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Synergetics (1975), “The Wellspring of Reality”
- Youth
If “pro” is the opposite of “con”, is “progress” the opposite of “congress”?
Gallagher1946–2022From the 1985 movie The Bookkeeper.
- Comedy
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948“An Autobiography OR The story of my experiments with truth”, Chapter 27, Recruiting Campaign, from a leaflet urging Indians to serve with the British Army in World War II.
I hold the opinion firmly that Civil Disobedience is the purest type of constitutional agitation. Of course, it becomes degrading and despicable if its civil, i.e. non-violent character is a mere camouflage.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (15 December 1921)