German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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They 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.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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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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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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