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.
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.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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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
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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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