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| a875d41 | I can understand the teachers saying it's a gun at my head, but they've got the same gun at the parents' head at the moment. The parent goes up to the teacher and says, well, I'm not satisfied with what you're doing, and the teacher can say, well tough. You can't take him away, you can't move him, you can't do what you like, so go away and stop bothering me. That can be the attitude of some teachers today, and often is. But now that the pos.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 4ac906a | There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers. | milton friedman | ||
| bb97793 | At the end of World War II, we had wage and price controls. Under wartime inflationary conditions, many employers found it difficult to recruit employees. To get around the limitations of wage control, many began to offer health care as a fringe benefit to attract workers. As a new benefit, it took some years for the Internal Revenue Service to get around to requiring the cost of the medical care to be included in the reported taxable incom.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 5b735c9 | Every special group around the country tries to get its hands on whatever bits and pieces it can. The result is that there is hardly an issue on which government is not on both sides. For example, in one massive building in Washington some government employees are working full-time trying to devise and implement plans to spend our money to discourage us from smoking cigarettes. In another massive building, perhaps miles away from the first,.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| b97103f | True market fundamentalists in the economics profession are few and far between. Not only are they absent from the center of the profession; they are rare at the "right-wing" extreme. Milton Friedman, a legendary libertarian, makes numerous exceptions, on everything from money to welfare to antitrust: Our principles offer no hard and fast line how far it is appropriate to use government to accomplish jointly what is difficult or impossible .. | Bryan Caplan | ||
| 62a4128 | Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine" in a free society, and have said that in such a society, "there is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." | economics ethics free-market | Milton Friedman | |
| 7f8befe | Consider, for example, language. It is a complex structure that is continually changing and developing. It has a well-defined order, yet no central body planned it. No one decided what words should be admitted into the language, what the rules of grammar should be, which words should be adjectives, which nouns. The French Academy does try to control changes in the French language, but that was a late development. It was established long aft.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| c9f7824 | We now know, as a few knew then, that the depression was not produced by a failure of private enterprise, but rather by a failure of government in an area in which the government had from the first been assigned responsibility---"To coin money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin," in the words of Section 8, Article 1, of the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately, as we shall see in Chapter 9, government failure in managing money is .. | Milton Friedman | ||
| a8b485b | Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --Justice Louis Brandeis," | Milton Friedman | ||
| ab90249 | Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary co-operation of individuals - the technique of the market place. | Milton Friedman | ||
| a65f246 | As Hayek, Milton Friedman, and so many others pointed out, a state with power, means, and inclination to intervene so heavily in economic affairs is unlikely to stop there. In the process of all this, religion and civil society are crowded out, appreciation for their role languishes, and the groundwork is laid for more restrictions on them in the future. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| abbd7c3 | Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin. | chapter-40 | Saint Thomas Aquinas | |
| 0f20c68 | Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 --Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas | Leonard Sweet | ||
| 804b868 | Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there is too little of the juice of the jest. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| fd5cefa | Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| da93ec0 | Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prize-fighter? Who would stoop to be fearless - like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. | fear | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 5d72871 | Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. It is only too probable that I shall never write it, so I will use it symbolically here; for it was a symbol of the same truth. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| dfe0ce5 | paradox simply means a certain defiant joy which belongs to belief. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0e86010 | We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| db4ef10 | A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| f38b3f9 | The mere machinery of voting is not democracy, though at present it is not easy to effect any simpler democratic method. But | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| a963b0e | There was a man who had a fly in his eye when he looked through the telescope, and he discovered that there was a most incredible dragon in the moon. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| ef7943f | The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7a3c5de | Closed-minded" is merely a negative way of saying convinced. In the words of G. K. Chesterton, "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."49 It's a good thing to close your mind once you find something worth closing it on." | Chris Stefanick | ||
| 8a8ebb5 | I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment; especially for my fall from my position at this moment. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| cfccce6 | That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already; but that God could have his back to the wall is a boast for all insurgents for ever. Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king. Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For .. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 8c4bcba | It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. | Dale Ahlquist | ||
| 540b32c | God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God. | Kevin Belmonte | ||
| 243bdf6 | For the perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them; what we call its triviality is really the tag-ends of numberless tales; ordinary and unmeaning existence is like ten thousand thrilling detective stories mixed up with a spoon. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c318b97 | Then, what," asked Turnbull, very slowly, as he softly picked a flower, "what is the difference between Christ and Satan?" "It is quite simple," replied the Highlander. "Christ descended into hell; Satan fell into it." "Does it make much odds?" asked the free-thinker. "It makes all the odds," said the other. "One of them wanted to go up and went down; the other wanted to go down and went up. A god can be humble, a devil can only be humbled... | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 62bc6b2 | Mr. Audley, never having been in politics, treated them a little more seriously. Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2d6a90c | In most commercial ways we're a pretty forward country. In these moral ways we're content to be a pretty backward country. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| a7d6e98 | I can only put it sufficiently curtly in a careless simile. A Socialist means a man who thinks a walking-stick like an umbrella because they both go into the umbrella-stand. Yet they are as different as a battle-ax and a bootjack. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 140bef6 | The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as with thunder with the trampling of their feet and far ahead of that ever swelling host went a man singing; as simply he had sung that morning in the winter woods, where he walked alone. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 62e3eb5 | The vision which has been so faintly suggested in these pages has never been confined to monks or even to friars. It has been an inspiration to innumerable crowds of ordinary married men and women; living lives like our own, only entirely different. That morning glory which St. Francis spread over the earth and sky has lingered as a secret sunshine under a multitude of roots and in a multitude of rooms. In societies like ours nothing is kn.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0b4277a | Sir Arthur St. Clare, as I have already said, was a man who read his Bible. That was what was the matter with him. When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible? A printer reads a Bible for misprints. A Mormon reads his Bible, and finds polygamy; a Christian Scientist reads his, and finds we have no arms and legs. St. Clare was an old Anglo-Indian Protestant soldier. N.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 8b57df2 | If you want to succeed at whist, either be a good whist-player, or play with marked cards. You may want a book about jumping; you may want a book about whist; you may want a book about cheating at whist. But you cannot want a book about Success...You may want to jump or to play cards; but you do not want to read wandering statements to the effect that jumping is jumping, or that games are won by winners. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 91e646c | Is that story really true?" he asked. "Oh, no," said Michael, airily. "It is a parable. It is a parable of you and all your rationalists. You begin by breaking up the Cross; but you end by breaking up the habitable world." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e25e765 | All habits are bad habits. (...) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed. | habits madness rebellionllion tamed | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4d18899 | If you let loose a law, it will do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such sense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| f27fc32 | The truth is that the old parliamentary oligarchy[Pg 227] abandoned their first line of trenches because they had by that time constructed a second line of defence. It consisted in the concentration of colossal political funds in the private and irresponsible power of the politicians, collected by the sale of peerages and more important things, and expended on the jerrymandering of the enormously expensive elections. In the presence of this.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 09f0251 | When one of England's finest writers, G. K. Chesterton, spoke of "the furious love of God," he was referencing the enormous vitality and strength of the God of Jesus seeking union with us." | Brennan Manning | ||
| 0419534 | Jus man patikat. No ta izriet sekojosais: es justos apbedinats apmeram divarpus minutes, ja man naktos dzirdet, ka esat miris mokpilna nave. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7ae2bde | There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived. | G.K. Chesterton |