The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.