Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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There 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.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The 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.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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