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
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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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 state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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