He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
LUDWIG VON MISESMany who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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 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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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