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.
LUDWIG VON MISESA society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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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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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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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 real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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