“A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.”

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

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.

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.

The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.

As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

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.

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they’re not like him.

There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.