Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISESFor 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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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 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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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