Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
As a means of alleviating poverty, Christian charity was worse than useless, as could be seen in the Papal states, which abounded in it. But it was popular not only among the traditionalist rich, who...
Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
On the whole, however, it was accepted that money not only talked, but governed. All the industrialist had to get to be accepted among the governors of society was enough money.
When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for whic...
Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look...
Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.
...capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic of modern economics. That is w...
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we havenationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,is not less cruel than...
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Oh, and 13.1 million American people had their homes foreclosed. Because their debt, it turns out, was real; it was only the debt within the financial sector that was imaginary. It was only the people...
Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.
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