In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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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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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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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 state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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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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