Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"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

"If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment." Milton Friedman

"The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately." Murray Rothbard

"True #‎ anarchism will be #‎ capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism." Murray Rothbard

"In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money." Murray Rothbard

"When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people." Milton Friedman

"The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor." Victor Hugo

"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world." Emma Goldman

"You never create change by fighting what already exists. To change something, you build new models that make the old obsolete" Buckminster Fuller

"Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there." Will Smith

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all." John Maynard Keynes

"Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else." Harry Browne

"The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion." George Orwell

"It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."" Harry Browne