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.
LUDWIG VON MISESDo not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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The 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.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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