“Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.”
John Perry Barlow 2.0 (2004)
Context: It’s a perfect set of circumstances to give us the time Yeats foretold, with the best having lost all conviction and the worst full of passionate intensity. I’m an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I’m not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
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American poet and essayist 1947–2018Related quotes
Three Uses of the Knife (1996)
“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..”
Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story
Responding to a question at his press conference (February 28, 1947); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1947, p. 191
“Don’t worry, there will always be something to worry about.”
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
Source: The Repossession Mambo (2009), Chapter 12 (p. 187)
“If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.”
As quoted in Earl Warren : A Great American Story (1948) by Irving Stone, p. 64
1940s
