Johan Norberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
-- Johan Norberg

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Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.
-- Johan Norberg

#World #Today #Economics
The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.
-- Johan Norberg

#World #Wealth #Distribution
Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.
-- Johan Norberg

#Opportunity #Choices #Poverty
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.
-- Johan Norberg

#Wealth #Cherish #Proof

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

Johan Norberg famous quotes

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