The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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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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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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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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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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