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.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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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 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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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