5 Harry Browne Quotes on Society

Harry Browne quotes on society

5. But what could be more important than your happiness? It's said that an authoritarian moral code is necessary to protect society. But who is society? Isn't it just a large group of people, all of whom have differing ideas concerning how one should live? And if an individual is required to give up his own happiness, of what value is society to him?

10. Given the government's record with the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, we can assume that a War on Abortion would lead within five years to men having abortions.

11. Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

32. We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government.

33. Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.