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A pessimist asked God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something—the mortality of the optimist."
- — Ambrose Bierce, in "The Devil’s Dictionary", 1911
You can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular.
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
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The three stages of government: If it works, tax it. If it still works, regulate it. If it stops working, subsidize it.
- — Ronald Reagan
Sotien jälkeisenä aikana se, mitä Suomessa saa sanoa, on ollut hyvin tarkkaan säädeltyä. Yhteiskunnallisesta keskustelusta on tullut salatiedettä, johon vain asiaan vihkiytyneiden sopii osallistua. Yhteiskunnallisen keskustelijan nauttima julkinen tunnustus ja arvostus on riippunut suoraan siitä, miten jyrkässä ristiriidassa hänen näkemyksenä ovat intuition, ts. maalaisjärjen, kanssa.
- — Jussi Halla-aho
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
Always do right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest.
- — Mark Twain
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go the hell in his own way.
- — Robert Frost
The more freedom, the less violence. Conversely, the more power at the center, the more violence. In short: power kills.
- — R.J. Rummel
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