Harrison Dean

“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

“The same goes for such nonsense sentences as “Time is a concept”, “Infinity is a concept”, and “God is a concept”. Those are all category errors.”
― Michael Huemer, Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy

“War is too important to be left to the generals.”
― Peter van Inwagen, God, Knowledge, and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Cornell Studies in Political Economy

“Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each with his pocket full of pennies. A politician walks around the outside of the circle, taking a penny from each person. No one minds; who cares about a penny? When he has gotten all the way around the circle, the politician throws fifty cents down in front of one person, who is overjoyed at the unexpected windfall. The process is repeated, ending with a different person. After a hundred rounds everyone is a hundred cents poorer, fifty cents richer, and happy.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism