Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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 entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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.
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