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[Quote No.40755] Need Area: Friends > General
"To govern is to educate. A statesman [or woman] is that person who tells people what people need to know. A politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear." - Oscar Arias Sanchez
winner Nobel prize for Peace, 1987
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[Quote No.40756] Need Area: Friends > General
"Foreign policy is merely domestic policy with its hat on." - Lester Pearson
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1957
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[Quote No.40758] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. [Temporary programs started in crises, for example recessions and wars, have been shown to create a sense of entitlement for the recipients that politically entrenches the government assistance. For example the US Federal Government in 1912 was about 6% of GDP but by 2012 it was 26% of GDP.]
" - Milton Friedman
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1976
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[Quote No.40759] Need Area: Friends > General
"Almost all government programs are started with good intentions, but when you look at what they actually achieve, there is a general rule. Almost every such program has results that are the opposite of the intentions of the well-meaning people who originally back it. [This is called the Law of Unintended Consequences.]" - Milton Friedman
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1976
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[Quote No.40760] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Less government is considered better than more government, by most capitalist economists. In fact, government is, in capitalistic economic theory and has shown itself historically, such a poor way to manage resources and deliver needed service that the joke among economists is that...] If you put the Federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1976
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[Quote No.40761] Need Area: Friends > General
"I estimate, in fact, that the [US] federal government is at least 120 times as large as any organization can be and still keep some control over its general operations. [Is it any wonder then that economists and others are concerned when citizens, who don't understand this, call for yet more government intervention and therefore even bigger government?]" - George Stigler
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1982
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[Quote No.40762] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most ineffective [wasteful] government agency [and the politicians and bureaucrats involved with it] is inherently the one most interested in concealing its [true] performance from the public [that pay for it].
" - Jimmy Carter
US President and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, 2002.
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[Quote No.40763] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Power-hungry] Governments need enemies [wars and crises] to frighten their people with, frightened people being more easy to lead." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
winner Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1937
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[Quote No.40764] Need Area: Friends > General
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators [politicians] do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’." - Theodore Roosevelt
(1858 –1919), 26th President of the United States of America (1901–1909) and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, 1906.
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[Quote No.40765] Need Area: Friends > General
"The more the state 'plans', the more difficult planning becomes for the individual [and therefore the less freedom the individual citizen has]." - Friedrich von Hayek
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1974
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[Quote No.40767] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians, regardless of what the voters ask for, should remember and explain the lessons of economics and history:] Competition as far as possible, planning as far as necessary [and no further]." - Willy Brandt
(1913 – 1992), German politician, Mayor of West Berlin 1957–1966, Chancellor of West Germany 1969–1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1964–1987, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, 1971.
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[Quote No.40768] Need Area: Friends > General
"Not only does absolute power [in the form of politicians and other elites] corrupt absolutely; it delays fantastically [for example, through long legal delays and court battles].
" - George Stigler
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1982
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[Quote No.40769] Need Area: Friends > General
"One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy." - Norman Borlaug
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1970
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[Quote No.40770] Need Area: Friends > General
"Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister during World War II and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1953.
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[Quote No.40771] Need Area: Friends > General
"Modern democracy is the daughter of the rationalism of the 17th and 18th century and is therefore, in a sense, the twin sister of science. It is, by its very origins, committed to rationality, to optimism about the future of mankind, to faith in progress based on factual knowledge of the world [and informed free choice]." - Salvador Luria
winner Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1969
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[Quote No.40772] Need Area: Friends > General
"There’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government.
" - Wole Soyinka
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1986
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[Quote No.40773] Need Area: Friends > General
"The mistakes made by a democracy in a whole generation do not compare with the mistakes that can be made by a dictatorship in a single day.
" - Anwar al-Sadat
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1978
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[Quote No.40774] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is very difficult to maintain a genuinely democratic political system where there is a high degree of illiteracy; where most people still live in rural poverty; where most people are uneducated and have little access to modern media. On the other hand, it is almost impossible to have a fully-fledged modern consumer economy without having democratic institutions.
" - F.W. de Klerk
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1993
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[Quote No.40775] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democratic principles do not flourish on empty stomachs.
" - George C. Marshall
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1953
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[Quote No.40776] Need Area: Friends > General
"[When considering foreign policy it should be remembered...] Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.
" - Lech Walesa
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1983
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[Quote No.40777] Need Area: Friends > General
"In dictatorships the beginning may seem easy, but tragedy awaits inescapably at the end." - Giorgos Seferis
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1963
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[Quote No.40778] Need Area: Friends > General
"Europe’s 20th-century totalitarianisms created a completely new type of human being. They forced a person to choose in a way we were never forced to choose before: to become either a victim or a perpetrator. Even surviving involved collaboration, compromises you had to make if you wanted to bring a bigger piece of bread home to your family. This choice has deformed millions..." - Imre Kertesz
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 2002
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[Quote No.40779] Need Area: Friends > General
"The [best essence of humanity, in woman or] man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
" - Wole Soyinka
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1986
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[Quote No.40780] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Unfortunately] All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state." - Albert Camus
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957
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[Quote No.40781] Need Area: Friends > General
"...revolutions...are exceedingly profitable things if you are on the winning side.
" - J.J. Thomson
winner Nobel Prize for Physics, 1906
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[Quote No.40782] Need Area: Friends > General
"[When considering foreign policy remember...] As long as the more powerful nations exploit the less powerful, they will be repaid by terrorism, hatred, and potential violence. Insofar as our policies are selfish or cynical or short-sighted, there will inevitably be a day of reckoning.
" - Jimmy Carter
US President and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, 2002.
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[Quote No.40783] Need Area: Friends > General
"Peace is indissolubly interwoven with the question of freedom, for peace without freedom is a mockery.
" - Albert Lutuli
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1960
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[Quote No.40784] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing, not even the most sophisticated weapon, not even the most brutally efficient policy, no, nothing will stop people once they are determined to achieve their freedom and their right to humanness.
" - Desmond Tutu
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1984
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[Quote No.40785] Need Area: Friends > General
"A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom.
" - Milton Friedman
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1976
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[Quote No.40786] Need Area: Friends > General
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance [usually against the government]." - Woodrow Wilson
(1856 –1924), Democrat politician, 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921 and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, 1919.
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[Quote No.40787] Need Area: Friends > General
"For me, justice is the first condition of humanity." - Wole Soyinka
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1986
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[Quote No.40788] Need Area: Friends > General
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere [as it sets a bad example of others' acquiescence to it and encourages those wishing to justify injustice for their own personal gain]." - Martin Luther King
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1964
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[Quote No.40789] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom without social justice is useless, and social justice is useless in the absence of individual freedom." - Shirin Ebadi
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 2003
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[Quote No.40790] Need Area: Friends > General
"Any peace not built on justice and on the recognition of the rights of the peoples, would be a structure of sand which would crumble under the first blow.
" - Anwar el-Sadat
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1978
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[Quote No.40791] Need Area: Friends > General
"Power alone is no guarantee of security...The only guarantee of security is justice.
" - Naguib Mahfouz
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1988
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[Quote No.40792] Need Area: Friends > General
"...it is better to suffer certain injustices than to commit them even to win wars." - Albert Camus
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957
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[Quote No.40793] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whatever culture it has overlain – whether Russian, Chinese, or Cuban – Marxism [communism] has proven itself economically unworkable and has perverted its underlying just social core by showing itself to be infinitely corruptible." - Roald Hoffmann
winner Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1981
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[Quote No.40794] Need Area: Friends > General
"Everyone can see how Communism rots the soul of a nation; how it makes it abject and hungry in peace, and proves it base and abominable in war." - Winston Churchill
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1953
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[Quote No.40795] Need Area: Friends > General
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion." - Alexandr Solshenitsyn
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970
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[Quote No.40796] Need Area: Friends > General
"Marxism may be discredited in Eastern Europe, but it still seems to flourish at Harvard." - Max Perutz
winner Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1962
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[Quote No.40797] Need Area: Friends > General
"You’ll never have a quiet [peaceful] world till you knock [educate] the patriotism out of the human race.
" - George Bernard Shaw
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1925
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[Quote No.40798] Need Area: Friends > General
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!" - Albert Einstein
winner Nobel Prize for Physics, 1921
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[Quote No.40799] Need Area: Friends > General
"I love my country too much to be a [patriotic] nationalist.
" - Albert Camus
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957
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[Quote No.40800] Need Area: Friends > General
"The state is primarily an organization for [enforcing a lifestyle on its citizens and] killing foreigners, that’s [arguably] its main purpose. There are, of course, other things they do [related to providing a physical and legal space for their citizens to live a particular lifestyle]. They do a certain amount of educating, but in the course of educating you try very hard to make the young [patriotic and] think it is a grand [valiant] thing to kill foreigners [or, from another point of view, to forcefully uphold the right to have a place to choose to live a different lifestyle]." - Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, noted pacifist and winner of the Nobel prize for Literature, 1950.
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[Quote No.40803] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property [competition and free markets rather than through public ownership, political largesse and government bureaucracy]!" - Milton Friedman
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1976
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[Quote No.40805] Need Area: Friends > General
"The single biggest [and often deliberately spread] misunderstanding built into the mentality of the popular [political and economic] culture is that one person's gain [wealth] is another person's loss [poverty]." - James Heckman
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 2000
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[Quote No.40807] Need Area: Friends > General
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich." - Milton Friedman
winner Nobel Prize for Economics, 1976
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[Quote No.40824] Need Area: Friends > General
"The first essential component of social justice is adequate food." - Norman Borlaug
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1970
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[Quote No.40825] Need Area: Friends > General
"You can’t build peace on empty stomachs.
" - John Boyd Orr
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1949
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[Quote No.40827] Need Area: Friends > General
"If the dead could speak, there would be no more war." - Heinrich Boll
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1972
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