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“reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“The way to help the poor, in short, is to let the Great Enrichment proceed by commercially tested betterment, as it has widely since 1800 and especially in the past forty years.”
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
“Therefore, having a lot is not immoral. It is the good luck to be born in America or Japan or Denmark. The “luck” consists chiefly of a modern liberal ideology of innovism combined with reasonably honest courts and reasonably secure property rights and reasonably non-extractive governments and reasonably effective educational systems, and a reasonably long time for the reasonably good ideas, and especially the innovations, to do their work. By all means let’s spread the good luck around—by persuading people to a modern liberalism leading to the Great Enrichment, and a full life.”
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
“The economy, like science or art, is more like an organism growing uncertainly toward the light than a steel machine repeating exactly today and tomorrow what it did yesterday.”
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”
― Omnipotent Government
― Omnipotent Government
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