Milton Friedman cytaty (185 cytatów, strona 3)

Milton Friedman: 185 Cytatów 3 Polubienia

Milton Friedman słynne cytaty

„Jeśli płacicie ludziom za to, że nie pracują, a każecie im płacić podatki gdy pracują, nie dziwcie się, że macie bezrobocie.”

Milton Friedman

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment. (ang.)

„Z euro jest jak z socjalizmem. To piękna idea, która nie sprawdza się w praktyce.”

Milton Friedman

„Nigdy nie spotkałem się z cięciem podatkowym, które by mi się nie podobało.”

Milton Friedman

I never met a tax cut I didn't like. (ang.)
Źródło: Richard A. Viguerie, Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, 2006, str. 46

„To co sprawia, że jest ona najbardziej fascynującą jest to, że jej fundamentalne zasady są tak proste, że każdy jest w stanie je zrozumieć, jednak niewielu je rozumie.”

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o ekonomii.

„Jednym z największych błędów jest sądzenie programów politycznych i rządowych na podstawie ich zamiarów, a nie rezultatów.”

Milton Friedman

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programmes by their intentions rather than their results. (ang.)

„Są tacy w niektórych krajach jakie odwiedziłem, którzy mają jasne pojęcie drogi od socjalizmu do kapitalizmu, np. w Czechosłowacji p. Wacław Klaus, a w Polsce p. Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Z ich punktu widzenia problem kluczowy stanowi odebranie własności z rąk władzy państwa i przekazanie w ręce ludzi, chodzi im po prostu o usunięcie rządu na bok.”

Milton Friedman

Źródło: Czerkawski B., Wolny prywatny rynek, [w:] „Najwyższy Czas!” nr 28, Warszawa 1990, s. I.

Milton Friedman Cytaty o wolności

„Społeczeństwo, które przedkłada równość nad wolność, nie ma ani jednego, ani drugiego. Społeczeństwo, które przedkłada wolność nad równość, będzie się szczyciło i jednym, i drugim.”

Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. (ang.)

„Świadectwo historii potwierdza jednoznacznie zależność między wolnością polityczną a wolnym rynkiem. Nie znam żadnego przykładu „wolnego społeczeństwa”, żyjącego w jakimkolwiek czasie i miejscu, które nie charakteryzowałoby się czymś porównywalnym do wolnego rynku jako formy organizacji przeważającej części gospodarki.”

Milton Friedman

„Zazdrośnie strzegąc wolności, a więc obawiając się centralistycznej władzy, czy to w rękach rządowych czy prywatnych, liberał dziewiętnastowieczny popierał decentralizację.”

Milton Friedman

Źródło: Kapitalizm i wolność, 1993 r.

„Janusz Korwin-Mikke, z którym korespondowałem, był aktywny przed '89 w drugim obiegu. Wydał Kapitalizm i wolność, Drogę do zniewolenia Hayeka, oraz inną literaturę libertariańską (…) W czasie, kiedy byliśmy w Warszawie jego partia mieściła się w dawnym mieszkaniu, które było dosłownie labiryntem małych biur, wypełnionych młodymi ludźmi, aktywnie pracującymi nad szerzeniem libertariańskiej ewangelii. Toczyliśmy z nimi wiele dobrych i żywych dyskusji.”

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Źródło: Friedman M., Friedman R., Two Lucky People: Memoirs, Chicago 1999, s. 514.

„Bez wolności gospodarczej nie ma wolności politycznej.”

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Milton Friedman cytaty

„Rządowe rozwiązanie problemów są zwykle równie złe jak sam problem.”

Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. (ang.)

O problemach

„Nie istnieje coś takiego jak darmowe obiady.”

Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch. (ang.)
być może spotykane wcześniej.

„Piekło tak nie szaleje, jak zlekceważony biurokrata.”

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O piekle

„Inflacja jest tą formą podatku, którą można nałożyć bez ustawy.”

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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. (ang.)

„Jestem zwolennikiem cięcia podatków w każdych okolicznościach i pod każdym pretekstem, z jakiejkolwiek przyczyny, kiedykolwiek jest to możliwe. (…) Ponieważ uważam, że dużym problemem nie są podatki, dużym problemem są wydatki. Wierzę, że rząd jest zbyt duży i natarczywy, że nie otrzymujemy równowartości naszych pieniędzy za około 40 procent naszych dochodów wydawanych przez rząd… Jak możemy przytrzeć nosa rządowi? Wierzę, że jest jeden, jedyny sposób: jest to sposób, w jaki rodzice kontrolują rozrzutne dzieci, przycinając ich kieszonkowe. Dla rządu oznacza to cięcia podatków.”

Milton Friedman

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. (...) Because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. I believe that government is too large and intrusive, that we do not get our money's worth for the roughly 40 percent of our income that is spent by government.... How can we ever cut government down to size? I believe there is one and only one way: the way parents control spendthrift children, cutting their allowance. For government, that means cutting taxes. (ang.)
Źródło: Richard A. Viguerie, Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, 2006, str. 46

O dzieciach , O rodzicach

„Jeżeli spojrzymy na walkę z narkotykami z czysto ekonomicznego punktu widzenia, to rolą państwa jest ochrona karteli narkotykowych.”

Milton Friedman

If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. (ang.)

O walce

„Zawsze czułem, że powiedzieć mniej – znaczy więcej, niż powiedzieć więcej.”

Milton Friedman

„Świat finansów jest podobny do alkoholizmu: i w jednym i w drugim przypadku najpierw jest nadmiar środków płynnych, następnie euforia, a na końcu – depresja.”

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O świecie

„Polska nie powinna naśladować bogatych krajów zachodnich, bo nie jest bogatym krajem zachodnim. Polska powinna naśladować rozwiązania, które kraje zachodnie stosowały, gdy były tak biedne, jak Polska.”

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wykład dla OKP podczas wizyty w Polsce w 1989 roku.

„Jestem za legalizacją narkotyków i prostytucji. Powinny być one traktowane tak, jak obecnie odnosimy się do alkoholu. Ludzie powinni mieć możliwość swobodnego nabywania narkotyków, lecz poczucie odpowiedzialności winno ich powstrzymywać przed czynieniem szkód innym. Wiem, że narkotyki są okropne i wyrządzają ogromne szkody, jednak zakaz ich posiadania wyrządza jeszcze większe. Jest to bowiem główne źródło przestępstw w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Nie ma również jakiegokolwiek uzasadnienia, by Stany Zjednoczone przy pomocy swych sił zbrojnych atakowały obiekty w Kolumbii lub Peru. Gdybyśmy egzekwowali nasze prawo zakazujące użycia narkotyków, nie byłoby na nie zapotrzebowania i nie byłoby problemu z Kolumbią lub Peru. Ale ponieważ nie jesteśmy zdolni egzekwować u siebie praw tu ustanowionych, próbujemy winić innych, stosować wobec nich siłę i zabijać ludzi. Nasza polityka w dziedzinie narkotyków jest nie tylko nieefektywna, ale również niemoralna.”

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O ludziach , O sile , O pomocy

„Praca naukowa opiera się na podstawowym założeniu, że wiedza jest lepsza od ignorancji.”

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O wiedzę

„Rządy nie uczą się niczego. Tylko ludzie się uczą.”

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Governments never learn. Only people learn. (ang.)
Źródło: The Cynic's Lexicon: A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice‎ (1984), Jonathon Green, str. 77

O ludziach

„Urna wyborcza tworzy zgodność bez jednomyślności zaś rynek jednomyślność bez zgodności”

Milton Friedman książka Wolny wybór

Źródło: Wolny wybór, 1996 r.

„Rząd nie rozwiązuje problemów, rząd je tworzy.”

Milton Friedman

„Nie możesz być pewien swej racji, jeśli o argumentach swoich oponentów nie będziesz wiedział więcej od nich samych.”

Milton Friedman

„Nic nie jest tak trwałe jak tymczasowa polityka rządu.”

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Milton Friedman: Cytaty po angielsku

“It does harm a great many other people, but primarily because it's prohibited. There are an enormous number of innocent victims now. You've got the people whose purses are stolen, who are bashed over the head by people trying to get enough money for their next fix. You've got the people killed in the random drug war. You've got the corruption of the legal establishment. You've got the innocent victims who are taxpayers who have to pay for more and more prisons, and more and more prisoners, and more and more police. You've got the rest of us who don't get decent law enforcement because all the law enforcement officials are busy trying to do the impossible.
And, last, but not least, you've got the people of Colombia and Peru and so on. What business do we have destroying and leading to the killing of thousands of people in Colombia because we cannot enforce our own laws? If we could enforce our laws against drugs, there would be no market for these drugs.”

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America's Drug Forum interview (1991)

“For both long and short periods there is a consistent though not precise relation between the rate of growth of the quantity of money and the rate of growth of nominal income. If the quantity of money grows rapidly, so will nominal income, and conversely. The relation is much closer for long than for short periods”

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Źródło: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“Make politics an avocation, not a vocation.”

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Milton Friedman

As quoted in “Milton Friedman: A Tribute” https://original.antiwar.com/henderson/2006/11/20/milton-friedman-a-tribute/, David R. Henderson, antiwar.com, (Nov. 20, 2006), told to Henderson (May, 1970)

“There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.”

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From Who protects the consumer?, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 7 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=7

“As liberals, we take freedom of the individual, or perhaps the family, as our ultimate goal in judging social arrangements. Freedom as a value in this sense has to do with the interrelations among people”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12

“The widespread use of the market reduces the strain on the social fabric by rendering conformity unnecessary with respect to any activities it encompasses. The wider the range of activities covered by the market, the fewer are the issues on which explicitly political decisions are required and hence on which it is necessary to achieve agreement. In turn, the fewer the issues on which agreement is necessary, the greater is the likelihood of getting agreement while maintaining a free society.”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 24

“There was nothing in these views to repel a student; or to make Keynes attractive. Keynes had nothing to offer those of us who had sat at the feet of Simons, Mints, Knight, and Viner.”

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Milton Friedman, "Comments on the Critics", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 80, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1972)

“Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.”

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Speaking at a meeting of the American Economic Association, as quoted by Walter Block in "Milton Friedman RIP" in Mises Daily (16 November 2006) http://mises.org/story/2393

“The contraction from 1929 to 1933 was by far the most severe business-cycle contraction during the near-century of U. S. history we cover and it may well have been the most severe in the whole of U. S. history.”

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Milton Friedman książka A Monetary History of the United States

"The Great Contraction, 1929-1933" (1963), with Anna J. Schwartz
A Monetary History of the United States (1963)

“In the course of General Westmoreland's testimony, he made the statement that he did not want to command an army of mercenaries. I stopped him and said, 'General, would you rather command an army of slaves?' He drew himself up and said, 'I don't like to hear our patriotic draftees referred to as slaves.' I replied, 'I don't like to hear our patriotic volunteers referred to as mercenaries.' But I went on to say, 'If they are mercenaries, then I, sir, am a mercenary professor, and you, sir, are a mercenary general; we are served by mercenary physicians, we use a mercenary lawyer, and we get our meat from a mercenary butcher.”

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That was the last that we heard from the general about mercenaries.
Two Lucky People: Memoirs, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1998) p. 380.

“I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.”

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As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)

“The business of business is business.”

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Widely attributed to Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“The construction of hypotheses is a creative act of inspiration, intuition, invention; its essence is the vision of something new in familiar material. The process must be discussed in psychological, not logical, categories; studied in autobiographies and biographies, not treatises on scientific method; and promoted by maxim and example, not syllogism or theorem.”

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"The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953)

“The organization of economic activity through voluntary exchange presumes that we have provided, through government, for the maintenance of law and order to prevent coercion of one individual by another, the enforcement of contracts voluntarily entered into, the definition of the meaning of property rights, the interpretation and enforcement of such rights, and the provision of a monetary framework.”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 27

“A liberal is fundamentally fearful of concentrated power. His objective is to preserve the maximum degree of freedom for each individual separately that is compatible with one man's freedom not interfering with other men's freedom. He believes that this objective requires that power be dispersed. He is suspicious of assigning to government any functions that can be performed through the market, both because this substitutes coercion for voluntary co-operation in the area in question and because, by giving government an increased role, it threatens freedom in other areas.”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 39

“There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.”

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Interview (10 February 1999) in the video production Take It To The Limits: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_qwo2VIlU.

“Freedom is a tenable objective only for responsible individuals. We do not believe in freedom for madmen or children. The necessity of drawing a line between responsible individuals and others is inescapable, yet it means that there is an essential ambiguity in our ultimate objective of freedom. Paternalism is inescapable for those whom we designate as not responsible.”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 33

“Whether it is in the slums of New Delhi or in the affluence of Las Vegas, it simply isn't fair that there should be any losers. Life is unfair — there is nothing fair about one man being born blind and another man being born with sight. There is nothing fair about one man being born of a wealthy parent and one of an impecunious parent. There is nothing fair about Muhammad Ali having been born with a skill that enables him to make millions of dollars one night. There is nothing fair about Marlene Dietrich having great legs that we all want to watch. There is nothing fair about any of that. But on the other hand, don't you think a lot of people who like to look at Marlene Dietrich's legs benefited from nature's unfairness in producing a Marlene Dietrich. What kind of a world would it be if everybody was an absolute identical duplicate of anybody else. You might as well destroy the whole world and just keep one specimen left for a museum. In the same way, it's unfair that Muhammad Ali should be a great fighter and should be able to earn millions. But would it not be even more unfair to the people who like to watch him if you said that in the pursuit of some abstract idea of equality we're not going to let Muhammad Ali get more for one nights fight than the lowest man on the totem pole can get for a days unskilled work on the docks. You can do that but the result of that would be to deny people the opportunity to watch Muhammad Ali. I doubt very much he would be willing to subject himself to the kind of fights he's gone through if he were to get the pay of an unskilled docker.”

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From Created Equal, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/broadcasts/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=5.

“The major disadvantage of the proposed negative income tax is its political implications. It establishes a system under which taxes are imposed on some to pay subsidies to others. And presumably, these others have a vote.”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 12 The Alleviation of Poverty, 2002 edition, p. 194

“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary co-operation of individuals—the technique of the market place.”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, pp. 12-13

“A government which maintained law and order, defined property rights, served as a means whereby we could modify property rights and other rules of the economic game, adjudicated disputes about the interpretation of the rules, enforced contracts, promoted competition, provided a monetary framework, engaged in activities to counter technical monopolies and to overcome neighborhood effects widely regarded as sufficiently important to justify government intervention, and which supplemented private charity and the private family in protecting the irresponsible, whether madman or child—such a government would clearly have important functions to perform. The consistent liberal is not an anarchist.”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 34

“How much attention is paid to agreement between Galbraith and myself in opposing a draft and favoring an all-volunteer armed force, or in opposing tariffs and favoring free trade, or on a host of other issues? What is newsworthy is that Galbraith endorses wage and price controls, while I oppose them.”

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A 1973 Interview with Milton Friedman – Playboy Magazine
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“Over the period covered by these data, a drastic change has occurred in the responsibilities undertaken by the state to provide assistance to the aged, unemployed and otherwise dependent. This change has had divergent results on the particular data under discussion. The availability of assistance from the state would clearly tend to reduce the need for private reserves and so to reduce private saving—it is equivalent, in terms of our hypothesis, to a reduction in the variance of transitory components.”

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A Theory of the Consumption Function (1957)

“Although I wish the anarchists luck, since that’s the way we ought to be moving now. But I believe we need government to enforce the rules of the game. By prosecuting anti-trust violations, for instance. We need a government to maintain a system of courts that will uphold contracts and rule on compensation for damages. We need a government to ensure the safety of its citizens–to provide police protection. But government is failing at a lot of these things that it ought to be doing because it’s involved in so many things it shouldn’t be doing.”

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A 1973 Interview with Milton Friedman – Playboy Magazine
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to get this favor - whether those people are large enterprises, or whether they're small businesses like farmers, or whether they're representatives of any other special group. The only way to prevent that is to force them to engage in competition one with the other.”

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Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg

“The basic problem of social organization is how to co-ordinate the economic activities of large numbers of people.”

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Źródło: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12

“The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.”

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From The Tyranny of Control, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 2 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=2