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“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.”

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Book:The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

“Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.”

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Author:Amory Lovins

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.”

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Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.”

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Author:Leif Johansson

“Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.”

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Author:John Clapham

“Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future”

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Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.”

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Author:Marshall Ganz

“Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.”

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Book:The Rise & Fall of Society

Source: The Rise & Fall of Society