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Own Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- 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,…
- 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…
- The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose…
- Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible…
- Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
- Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as…
- What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.
- It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it…
- 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…
- The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who…
- Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
- Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
- Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find…
- 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…
- 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…
- He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
- 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.
- The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov