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.
LUDWIG VON MISESTheir attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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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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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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