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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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