As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
LUDWIG VON MISESAs conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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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 champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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 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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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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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