Li Lu Quotes

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

Economic freedom is an end in itself …. Economic freedom is an indispensable means towards the achievement of political freedom.

Economic freedom tends to lead to political freedom.

With the laborers of England generally, does not the moral coercion of want subject their will as despotically to that of their employer, as the physical constraint does the soldier, the seaman, or the slave?

In a market economy, the right to seek employment is fundamental … the issue goes beyond economy. It’s an issue of human rights.

Freedom" is a grand word, but under the banner of Free Trade the most predatory wars were conducted; under the banner of "free labor" the toilers were robbed.

“I make you free,” so speak the Rights of Man to the laborer, “free to earn a wretched living and turn your employer into a millionaire; free to sell him your liberty for a mouthful of bread. He will imprison you ten hours or twelve hours in his workshops; he will not let you go till you are wearied to the marrow of your bones, till you have just enough strength left to gulp down pour soup and sink into a heavy sleep. You have but one of your rights that you may not sell, and that is the right to pay taxes.

... the misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.

Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And that has never changed. We are all participating in that.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

The left hates capitalism, not because of freedom and liberty - although they do. But the primary they hate capitalism is that it is the most efficient engine to create wealth for the greatest number of people in a society that has ever been devised. Nobody's ever claimed it's perfect. Nobody's ever said it's flawless. But it's better than anything else out there, particularly anything left has to offer.

Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.