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.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
LUDWIG VON MISESKnow that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
LUDWIG VON MISESHistorical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Socialism 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.
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 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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