Milton Friedman Quotes

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

Milton Friedman

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• Freedom
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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Society
  • Freedom
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• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
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• The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Job
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  • Leader

• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Free

• I like to play as a No. 10. I think I have more freedom offensively. For Belgium, we have full backs who run hard and create a lot of space, which is good, and I like to play there.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Space

• I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Believe
  • Political

• If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Home
  • Political
  • Mom

• There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I shall honour the Quakers for their noble Effort to abolish Slavery. It is equally calculated to promote moral & political Good.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Good
  • Political
  • Effort

• Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Political

• The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

  

  Bill Frist
  • World
  • Hope
  • Success

• Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Power
  • Political
  • Party

• I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • House

• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Children
  • Book

• Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Today
  • Band

• Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Today

• I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, 'Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!'

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Kids

• Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Mankind