They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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