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- When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the…
- There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should…
- Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
- 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,…
- Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.
- The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of…
- Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
- 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…
- 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 market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own…
- Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.
- 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…
- Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away
- 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…
- Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.
- 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…
- It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort…
- Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
- While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and…
- 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…
- These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small…
- 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…
- The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.
- 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…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams