black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Ludwig von Mises

Related Topics

Alternative Being Capitalism Human Men Politics Socialism System

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Class Freely Philosophy Progressive Tap Taxation Wealth
German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Against Change Coin Country Human Human Nature Nature Philosophy Political Socialism
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Doctor Hard Most Renowned Self University Work
The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Doe Giving Government Somebody Truth
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Course Disaster Liberty Mischief Often Peace Source State War
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Call Consequences Government Intervention Marketplace Unintended
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Avoid Boom Collapse Credit Expansion Final Liberty Mean
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Difficult Enter Freedom Indivisible One Restrict Soon Start Stop
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Choose Division Entrepreneur Faire Individual Labor Liassez Mean Mechanical Operate Soules
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.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Bless Bureau Clerk Garden Man Promise Subordinate Transform
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Freedom Mean Mistake Really
Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Archive Bless Breath Breathe Dream Know Miracle Moment
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!
LUDWIG VON MISES

Mind New People State Superstitious Type Worship
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Action Important Mean Men Prison Guard Remember Threat Violent
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Call Freedom Liberal Popular Press Religion Speech Though Today
The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Addict Alcoholic Behavior Drug Gobverming Life Man Morality Person Rule

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes