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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
― Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
Freedom
Liberty
Libertarian
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
― Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
Freedom
Business
Party
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.
― Kin Hubbard
Funny
Witty
Freedom
Kin Hubbard
I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
― Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Freedom
Humorous
Equality
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
― Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Freedom
Power
Government
There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.
― Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir
Freedom
Thinking
Risk
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
― Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl
Happiness
Peace
Freedom
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
― Vernon Howard
Vernon Howard
Freedom
Numbers
BeingFree
The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
― Utah Phillips
Utah Phillips
Freedom
Eye
Giving
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
― Voltaire
Voltaire
Wisdom
Freedom
Fool
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
― Voltaire
Voltaire
Inspirational
Religious
Freedom
Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.
― Kara Goucher
Sports
Running
Freedom
Kara Goucher
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
― Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Wise
Freedom
Men
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
― Toni Morrison
Jobs
Freedom
Real
Toni Morrison
Government is best which governs least
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Freedom
DemocraciesHave
Government
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom
Judging
Political
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom
Order
Practice
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
― Sigmund Freud
Leadership
Freedom
Philosophical
Sigmund Freud
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
― Anaïs Nin
Life
Wall
Freedom
Anais Nin
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
― Arthur Schopenhauer
Inspirational
BeingYourself
Freedom
Arthur Schopenhauer
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