German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
LUDWIG VON MISESAs 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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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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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.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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