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.
LUDWIG VON MISESTyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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