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.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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To 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.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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