The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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 state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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