Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

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.

It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.

Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.