The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISESTaxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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