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 MISESInnovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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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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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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 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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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