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The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.


Julian Simon

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The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom
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ROBERT KENNEDY This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many pe...
BRUCE BABBITT Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
HERBERT HOOVER Like adequate education, freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition f...
ALVIN TOFFLER Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the ...
CARLY FIORINA The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian w...
TSAKHIAGIIN ELBEGDORJ There are many other people who believe the same way. It's a matter of freedom of religion, equality...
DAVID MATAS The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has cham...
DAVID F. FORD The problem is a lack of leadership and an intellectual climate that is extremely hostile to economi...
CHARLES GRANT Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no l...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.
JOSE MARIA AZNAR The big problem many people today have is not the problem of having inspiration
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SUKARNO Larry Summers is the economic conscience of Rubin. He is the economic half of that team. Rubin had m...
DIANE SWONK We lack economic growth because our people are not building industries anymore.
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functiona...
JOSE SARAMAGO The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
RONALD REAGAN The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
ZIG ZIGLAR Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolu...
ROLLO MAY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Poli...
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SHEILA CORONEL Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that p...
GLORIA STEINEM The problem with the internet is that too many people can make their opinions heard.
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DAVID HORSEY Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a fin...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH The problem is people don't live on economic statistics.
ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly...
HENRY GIROUX The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unio...
P. J. O'ROURKE I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not jus...
JAMIE JOHNSON The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And ...
GEORGE W. BUSH What Katrina did was unmask many of the deep social, economic and racial divisions we have in this c...
SILAS LEE Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible
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HU JIA Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhapp...
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MELES ZENAWI One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.
RON BRACKIN The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.
AMIT ABRAHAM Too many people may not always know what is wrong and where and why, but many do understand often wh...
ANUJ SOMANY I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not ...
HARRY TRUMAN There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...
NEIL GAIMAN The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the ...
SAM HARRIS The Chinese believe that [former Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev made a critical, indeed fatal erro...
GLEN BARCLAY My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue diffe...
KURT BILLS Not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
DENNIS PRAGER There are too many individuals who take advantage of the freedom of expression to make many wild and...
ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.
W. EDWARDS DEMING I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I w...
NELSON MANDELA The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connect...
DAVID W. EARLE Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.
NICOLAS GOMEZ DAVILA Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibr...
RABINO NILTON BONDER Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibr...
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BERNHARD VON BULOW Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry...
TOM COLICCHIO Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly...
PAULINE HANSON Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
ANEURIN BEVAN Our problem is many of our schools are too close together.
LAWRIE KOBZA Economic institutions shape economic incentives: the incentives to become educated, to save and inve...
DARON ACEMOğLU We're not getting any information. Our lack of communication is a real problem.
JEFFREY WILLIAMS The big problem is the lack of funding.
PATRICK MANNING Criminal background checks are not perfect and occasionally there's a problem. One child abused is o...
GREGG SHIELDS Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
ALEXEI NAVALNY Secretary of State Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of t...
BARBARA LEE I think the biggest problem is what appears to be a lack of concentration and a lack of focus.
BOB BRENLY I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be ...
BOYD RICE What holds South Sydney back can be attributed to lack of funding, but it also is possibly attribute...
RUSSELL CROWE Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
VINCE LOMBARDI JR. Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.
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BEN HOROWITZ Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the ri...
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DIMITRIS TIMOTHEATOS If you don't tie what you're doing to the business problem, you'll never get anywhere. You will fail...
JAKE FREIVALD Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Beyond repressive states, political instability drives many threats to press freedom in Africa.
JULIA CRAWFORD Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much li...
CASSANDRA CLARE If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE I see a lack of hope on too many faces, ... As the city grows, we need not forget those who are disa...
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CHARLES DI BONA Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But ...
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JULIAN OVENDEN It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.
JULIAN CASTRO No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not ...
JULIAN BAGGINI Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
JULIAN ASSANGE It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o...
JULIAN BAGGINI It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship,...
JULIAN BAGGINI As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A...
JULIAN CASTRO The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incr...
JULIAN SANDS 'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.
JULIAN OVENDEN I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I would have nailed Bond.
JULIAN MCMAHON Morally, the show challenges itself consistently. To be honest, sometimes I don't know where the mor...
JULIAN MCMAHON You and I are mothers. You are our leader. You know a mother's love. Please help and intervene,
JULIAN MCMAHON Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
JULIAN MCMAHON By the time Van died everyone involved in the case knew the prison workers had only been kindly to h...
JULIAN MCMAHON Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in qu...
JULIAN BAGGINI When we started, we didn't even have a script. We felt we could create the story together with the c...
JULIAN CROUCH