Renato Passos

“Há pessoas que protestam contra a inclusão dos valores mais elevados da vida na “lógica do dinheiro”. Se com isso querem dizer que não deveríamos ter de sacrificar nossas necessidades menores à preservação dos valores superiores, e que a escolha deveria ser feita por outrem, esse protesto parece bastante estranho e não demonstra grande respeito pela dignidade do indivíduo.”
― Friedrich Hayek, O Caminho da Servidão

“So achieving complete protection of all citizens at all times from the risk of falling incomes means not only being ruled by an immensely powerful government with virtually no checks on its discretion, but also the eradication of all prospects of economic growth. Inevitably, at the end of this road paved with the good intention of protecting all producers from loss lies not only serfdom but also widespread poverty.”
― Donald J. Boudreaux, The Essential Hayek

“For, the statement that only science can lead to truth is not itself deduced from science. It is not a scientific statement but rather a statement about science, that is, it is a metascientific statement. Therefore, if scientism’s basic principle is true, the statement expressing scientism must be false. Scientism refutes itself. Hence it is incoherent.”
― John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

“It is not because men have made laws that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law