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.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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 characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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Private 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.
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If 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.
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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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