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Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism QUOTES

Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism QUOTES

1 " Medical licensing radically cut the number of black and female doctors. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

2 " Unfortunately, Americans took another tactic. They attempted to deter aggressors by becoming aggressors themselves. In doing so, they created a cure worse than the disease. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

3 " When regulations become life-threatening, people turn to underground suppliers for help. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

4 " Drugs that die on the laboratory shelf can't save anyone. No matter how much money we have, we cannot buy cures that no one has developed. Many more people are probably harmed through the loss of innovative new drugs than through all other regulatory prohibitions and delays put together. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

5 " Will some people choose poorly? Of course! However, most of the time, people choose poorly because they have few good alternatives. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

6 " A pervasive belief in our society, our collective consciousness, is in a win-lose world, where one person's gain is another's loss. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

7 " We wisely refrain from threatening our neighbors when they are interacting and contracting with each other without using force or deceit. Those individuals, after all, know their situation better than we do. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

8 " An employer will usually reward workers as their capacity to create more wealth increases or will lose them to employers who do. All but the most complacent employees will seek (and find) a better situation if they are underpaid or unappreciated when compared to their peers. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

9 " People find their niche in the marketplace just as different species find their place in the environmental ecosystem. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

10 " Workers who want higher wages train or go to school to gain skills that are in demand. Eventually, as more people train, the supply of the skilled workers equals the demand, and wages stabilize. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

11 " When developing countries start abandoning aggression, their incidence of poverty goes down as their wealth goes up. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

12 " ...countries throughout the world create more wealth, as measured by their GDP, when their economic freedom index (EFI) is high. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

13 " As children, we learned that if no one hits first, no fight is possible. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

14 " Aggression hides in our culture under many names. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

15 " ….what we believe we would do and what we actually would do are quite different. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism

16 " We defer to authority figures because we believe that they know more than we do. If a mistake is made, it's easy to lay the blame at their feet. Ultimately, however, we are responsible for choosing the authority figure to whom we defer. Our choice to obey someone who urges aggression against others makes us responsible for that aggression. "

― Mary J. Ruwart , Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism