Michael Morrison

“If almost everyone is in favor of feeding the hungry, the politician may find it in his interest to do so. But, under those circumstances, the politician is unnecessary: some kind soul will give the hungry man a meal anyway. If the great majority is against the hungry man, some kind soul among the minority still may feed him—the politician will not.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

“In eighteenth-century England a system of professional police and prosecutors, government paid and appointed, was viewed as potentially tyrannical—worse still, French.”
― David D. Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different from Ours

“I had always resented sleep as an intrusion on my nocturnal self-pity”
― Oscar Levant, A Smattering of Ignorance

“The marketplace is not a battlefield where the person with the most money wins the battle and takes the whole prize;”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism