Johan Norberg Quotes
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Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.
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Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
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Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.
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The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.
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Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.
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