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Quote on complacency and life by Benjamin E. MaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities." Benjamin E. Mays
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Harry Browne quote image about ignorance, humility, and accepting limited knowledgeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else." Harry Browne
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Murray Rothbard quote about paper money and monetary freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you advocate the unlimited freedom of each individual to manufacture dollars?" If dollars are really and properly things-in-themselves, why not let everyone manufacture them as they manufacture wheat and baby food?" Murray Rothbard
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Thomas Sowell quote about self-education, literacy, and the education crisisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation." Thomas Sowell
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Murray Rothbard quote image about the libertarian creed and classical libertyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy." Murray Rothbard
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Milton Friedman quote about Social Security and pension systemsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end." Milton Friedman
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Milton Friedman quote about voluntary exchange and mutual economic benefitCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. 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 Friedman
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Quote by Peter Albert David Singer about forests, meat consumption, and the future of the planetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers" Peter Albert David Singer
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Economic development and consumption quote by Ivan IllichCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Up to now, economic development has always meant that people, instead of doing something, are enabled to buy it... Economic development has also meant that, after a time, people must buy the commodity because the conditions under which they could get along without it had disappeared from their physical, social, or cultural environment." Ivan Illich
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Eduardo Galeano quote about economics, weapons, and the gross national productCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."" Eduardo Galeano
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Inspirational Eduardo Galeano quote about prosperity, poverty, and developmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?" Eduardo Galeano
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Quote image featuring Pierre-Joseph Proudhon on the relationship between property and theftCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?" Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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