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His Own Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible…
- Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
- Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
- Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a…
- The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own…
- This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is…
- Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
- Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find…
- 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…
- Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his…
- He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
- Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
More His Own Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr