Douglas Massey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.
-- Douglas Massey

#Government #People #Use
The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, by creating a constitutional order for the creation and expansion of liberty.
-- Douglas Massey

#Men #Order #Creating
Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.
-- Douglas Massey

#Numbers #People #Frozen
I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a society that produces widespread material well-being and respects individual rights and liberties.
-- Douglas Massey

#Running #Thinking #Rights
Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.
-- Douglas Massey

#Running #People #Groups
I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.
-- Douglas Massey

#Government #Want #Get Away
You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place.
-- Douglas Massey

#Government #Competition #Fairness
Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot of nations are just so small, that unless they can sell their goods and services on the market they're never going to develop, they don't have an internal market that's big enough to sustain anything.
-- Douglas Massey

#Expansion #Guarantees #Way

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

Douglas Massey famous quotes

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