{"author":"Milton Friedman","author_id":"Milton+Friedman","total_quotes":50,"quotes":[{"text":"Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine' in a free society, and have said that in such a society, 'there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["business","economics","ethics","free-market"],"id":23705,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["equality","freedom"],"id":24301,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["candle","free","people "],"id":26947,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["capitalism"],"id":43732,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["greed","me","know "],"id":70610,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["architecture","government "],"id":76551,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"Governments never learn. Only people learn.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["people","learn","never "],"id":77510,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["people","problem","want "],"id":82201,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. A country in which shooting down unidentified planes 'on suspicion' can be seriously considered as a drug-war tactic is not the kind of United States that either you or I want to hand on to future generations.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["drugs","economics"],"id":102325,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"},{"text":"For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs--jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.","author":"Milton Friedman","tags":["economics","friedman","job-creation","jobs","work"],"id":105737,"author_id":"Milton+Friedman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}