The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
LUDWIG VON MISESA 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!
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
LUDWIG VON MISESFor 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 MISESThis is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESPrivate 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESFreedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISESTo the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESA free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
LUDWIG VON MISESThe root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is always freedom from the government.
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