"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork." ― Milton Friedman Topic(s): Food More From Milton Friedman "History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition." "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that’s why it’s so essential to preserving individual freedom." "The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government." More In Food "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine."― Robin Leach "I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient."― Ornette Coleman "If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."― Shmuel Y. Agnon