"Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally."

-- James M. Buchanan

#Philosophy Quotes #Real Quotes #Political Quotes

“All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.”
“Deserve your dream.”

Source : Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.21, New Directions Publishing
“I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.”
“I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.”
“Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.”
“When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.”
“I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.”
“There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat”

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