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- Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and…
- German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
- 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…
- If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink…
- The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole…
- We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of…
- Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action…
- Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of…
- Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
- Human action is purposeful behavior.
- Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.
- If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their…
- The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men…
- The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all…
- All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail
- Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life…
- The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have…
- Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
- Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the…
- The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability…
- 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.
- In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What…
- 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…
- There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong