Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISESSocialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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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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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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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
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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