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- 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 study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other…
- Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their…
- One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new credit to lend.…
- Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the…
- People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own…
- 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…
- 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,…
- If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits…
- Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.
- Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public,…
- 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…
- The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
- 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.
- The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment…
- In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather…
- 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 the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other…
- If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
- 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…
- 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.
- There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour