Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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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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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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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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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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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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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