Israel Kirzner famous quotes
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The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth. But the economic education needed to reduce such ignorance must be based on austere, objective, scientific content—with no ideological or moral content of its own.
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Innovations until now conceived by no one at all
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A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.
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The ability of the market to serve society gas been and is continually being undermined by the attacks levelled by its ideological opponents.
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Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
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The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
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Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.
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The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
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