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

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
― Donald J. Boudreaux, The Essential Hayek

“They are for ‘freedom’ when it is freedom to kill third-term fetuses or engage in same-sex marriages or stuff coke up their noses; they do not define freedom as anything to do with captive peoples around the world having the chance to escape the tyrannies that constrain them. They like Fidel because he is a thorn in America’s side and a sort of dime-store existentialist, and they rhapsodize about his spreading of literacy in Cuba without considering the fact that at the same time that he teaches people to read he tortures writers like Armando Valladares whose books he doesn’t like.”
― David Horowitz, The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings