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.
LUDWIG VON MISESFor 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESTrue, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
LUDWIG VON MISESTheir attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESTaxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll 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
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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