There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.


The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations is Not Inevitable (ed. 2004)

Michael Novak Quotes

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise...

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise...

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise...

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise...