System Quotes

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.

Eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent,

Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we’ve seen in over 70 years.

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.

…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.