The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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