Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.

I haven't found anything that I've wanted to say that I couldn't do through either the Internet or the reality shows that I've done.