A Quote by Robert Nozick

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

Robert Nozick

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Robert Nozick
American - Philosopher
November 16, 1938 - January 23, 2002

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

Robert Nozick

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Coretta Scott King

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Gore Vidal

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Francis Crick

Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.

Fran Drescher

From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.

Ilana Mercer

Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their biological children.

Kristine G. Baker

Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's.

Kabir Bedi

It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in some ways the great ideological wars of the 20th century that cost so many lives had to do with whether to have managed economies directed by government or economies directed by the free movement of capital, which is only partially subject to government regulation.

Robert Hass

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

Tom G. Palmer

Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former. Real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

Thomas Jefferson

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

Sam Brownback

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Fran Lebowitz

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

Shelley Berkley

In America, as was the topic earlier about polygamy, consenting adults are supposed to do - be able to do whatever they want to each other... whether it's marrying multiple partners, marrying someone of the same sex, prostitution, marijuana. As long as you're not hurting anyone else, it's really none of the government's business.

Max Kellerman

Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.

Cleve Jones

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