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Topic·Unintended consequences✕clear

Economic literature2 quotes

Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he intends only his own security... and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. — Adam Smith · 1776 There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote. — Milton Friedman · 1983

Detective fiction1 quote

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. — Douglas Adams · 1988

Philosophical literature1 quote

The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good. — Hannah Arendt · 1975

Political literature1 quote

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote. — Milton Friedman · 1983