Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
LUDWIG VON MISESSocialism 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 market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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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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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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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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