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What kind of society isnt structured on greed? The problem of soci

What kind of society isnt structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system. – Milton Friedman

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The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. – Milton Friedman

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Government
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Milton Friedman
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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. – Milton Friedman

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Freedom
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Milton Friedman
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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. – Milton Friedman

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. – Abraham Lincoln

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Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. – Norman O. Brown

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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. – Frank Borman

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