Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
LUDWIG VON MISESSocialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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