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 MISESKnow that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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