Milton Friedman Quote

The liberal conceives of men as imperfect beings. He regards the problem of social organization to be as much a negative problem of preventing "bad" people from doing harm as of enabling "good" people to do good; and, of course, "bad" and "good"people may be the same people, depending on who is judging them.


Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom - Capitalism and Freedom (1962)


The liberal conceives of men as imperfect beings. He regards the problem of social organization to be as much a negative problem of preventing bad...

The liberal conceives of men as imperfect beings. He regards the problem of social organization to be as much a negative problem of preventing bad...

The liberal conceives of men as imperfect beings. He regards the problem of social organization to be as much a negative problem of preventing bad...

The liberal conceives of men as imperfect beings. He regards the problem of social organization to be as much a negative problem of preventing bad...