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- The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,…
- Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their…
- We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely…
- People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own…
- History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads,…
- As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end…
- There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public…
- It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the…
- Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
- Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they…
- It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other…
- It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as…
- Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills…
- The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
- 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.…
- Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary,…
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