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Against Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have…
- The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose…
- German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
- The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man…
- Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
- It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument…
- No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
- Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure…
- Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
- The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend,…
- Both force and money are impotent against ideas.
- In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather…
- Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
- 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…
- Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to…
- Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade…
- Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
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- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange