All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
LUDWIG VON MISESDepression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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A 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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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