The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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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 main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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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