♦ nivek ♦ Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.-- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author Source: Atlas Shrugged, Francisco's "Money Speech" http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.4138 "For you see, the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist Source: his novel 'Coningsby, the New Generation', 1844 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/B...aeli.Quote.2E3D "The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State." -- Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) Source: The Ethics of Redistribution [1952] (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1990), p. 72. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/B...enel.Quote.6413 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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