The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISESPlanning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
LUDWIG VON MISESIn such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
LUDWIG VON MISESHe who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESFreedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
LUDWIG VON MISES