Milton Friedman Quotes

Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.

Milton Friedman

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• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Team

• I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Overcome

• I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Book
  • Never
  • Really

• On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, Bush's assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

  

  Fareed Zakaria

• No religion is responsible for terrorism - people are responsible for violence and terrorism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Violence

• The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World
  • Responsibility

• After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the several States.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Believe
  • Wishes

• I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Freedom

• When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.

  

  Ken Norton
  • Today
  • Education

• Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Good
  • Gang

• I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

  

  Daniel Woodrell

• We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Real
  • Science
  • Curiosity

• I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.

  

  Jason Mewes
  • Cool
  • Dark

• I encourage women to just feel good about who you are.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • Good
  • Women

• Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

  

  Ben Vereen
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Miracle

• 'I consider this Negro Benjamin Banneker as fresh proof that the powers of the mind are disconnected with the colour of the skin or in other words, a striking contradiction to Mr. Hume's doctrine that 'the Negroes are naturally inferior to the whites and unsusceptible of attainments in arts and sciences.'' 123

  

  James McHenry
  • Mind
  • Words

• Let me show you how to drive me crazy,Let me show you how to make me feel so good,Let me show you how to take me to the edge of the stars and back again.You've gotta show me how to drive you crazy,You've gotta show me all the things you wanna happen to you,We've gotta tell each other everything, we always wanted someone to do.

  

  Jim Steinman
  • Good
  • Crazy

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Change
  • Comfort
  • Measure

• Question everything.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Question

• Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Discipline
  • Interest
  • Comfort