The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISESInnovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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