What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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.
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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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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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