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.
LUDWIG VON MISESHe who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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