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.
LUDWIG VON MISESSociety has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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 standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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