What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESDo not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Society 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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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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