The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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 market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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Innovators 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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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 standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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