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- The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
- The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
- If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
- Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown…
- Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
- He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions…
- The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
- The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who…
- What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
- This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
- Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
- The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his…
- Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the…
- The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived…
- A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows…
- 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 governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which…
- The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man…
- It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and…
- 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…
- So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal…
- 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.
- Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
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