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 MISESState 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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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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