The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
LUDWIG VON MISESTheir 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 is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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