For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
LUDWIG VON MISESPlanning 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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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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 riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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