Richard Gunderman

Heavy-handed central planners want to control individual lives by treating them like lifeless statistics. The results are nothing short of disastrous.

Financial incentives shape behavior — not always for the better.

"Van Gogh sought through his art to throw open the prison doors and liberate those trapped in a mode of life that regards others strictly in terms of economic value." ~ Richard Gunderman

"We tend to find what we set out looking for, and when persons operate with the assumption that others are out to victimize them, their expectations tend to be fulfilled." ~ Richard Gunderman

"As Thomas Aquinas indicated, none is so poor as to lack the means to be generous. The planned, egalitarian society is not the only just or good one, and a community in which generosity thrives is the very antithesis of a tyranny." ~ Richard Gunderman

"Every job is more than just a job. It is also an opportunity to help another human being develop as a member, a contributor, and perhaps even a leader in a society dedicated to freedom and responsibility." ~ Richard Gunderman

"Gorged on such pablum, we are liable to become indolent, somnolent, and neglectful—overfed loafers of a popular culture of junk food, dozing uneasily on our couches as the world flashes by on our screens." ~ Richard Gunderman

"We are not selecting for, nurturing, or rewarding imagination in medicine to the degree we should, and patients, physicians, and our society are paying the price for it." ~ Richard Gunderman

"In her work, we find an empirical validation of the importance of Tocqueville’s voluntary associations, which he called the 'fundamental science' of democracy." ~ Richard Gunderman

"Statistics deals with human beings in highly abstract terms. The human being is analyzed—etymologically, 'cut up'—into various measurable parameters." ~ Richard Gunderman