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Individual Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the…
- The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept…
- The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself…
- There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the…
- 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…
- Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of…
- The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a…
- Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind…
- Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status…
- Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived…
- 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…
- Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow…
- Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.
- Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
- 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…
- All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
- Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of…
- The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy…
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- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion -… — Michele Bachmann
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou