Diary of a Bad Year - pg. 117

Liberals, in Australia as in South Africa, feel that it should be left to the market to decide who shall rise and who shall not. The role of government should be self-limited: to create conditions in which individuals can bring their aspirations, their drive, their training, and whatever other forms of intangible capital they have, to the market, which will then (here comes the moment when economic philosophy turns into religious faith) reward them more or less in proportion to their contribution (their "input").