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"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."
menu_book Capitalism and Freedom
View Full QuoteView Full Quote"The nature of a civilization is what aggregates around a religion. Our civilization is incapable of building a temple or a tomb. It will be forced to find its fundamental value, or it will decompose. And the great phenomenon of our era is the violence of the Islamic thrust."
"The greater productivity of work under the division of labour is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals."
menu_book Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
View Full Quote"Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production: a draining of the fruits of society for the benefit of nonproductive, actually antiproductive, rulers."
menu_book Anatomy of the State
View Full Quote"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
menu_book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
View Full Quote"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it."
menu_book The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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England and the Need for Nations
Scruton's influential pamphlet arguing that the nation-state is the indispensable vessel of liberal democratic governance, and coining the term 'oi...
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Mises's 1922 treatise (originally Die Gemeinwirtschaft) arguing that socialism is not merely inefficient but calculationally impossible without mar...
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Adam Smith's foundational work on moral philosophy, exploring how human sympathy and the impartial spectator guide ethical judgment, long before he...
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Exulansis
Exulansis is the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because other people cannot relate to it. The word was coined by John Koeni...
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Coined by British philosopher Roger Scruton in England and the Need for Nations (2004), oikophobia (from Greek oikos, home, and phobia, aversion) d...
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