The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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