C.S. Friedman Quotes

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

There is only one social responsibility of business

The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.

We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work.

"Leading" is about mobilizing people toward valued goals.

Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent.

Knowing what matters most, what I call "being real," is the alpha and omega for leaders.

When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive.

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.

By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy.

Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.

If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.