All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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