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Power Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- 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…
- To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire…
- Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
- This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
- The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
- 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…
- If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
- Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses…
- 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…
- 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 gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a…
- The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force them…
- Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
- If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the…
- 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…
- The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit.…
- What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.
- ...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher…
- 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…
- The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
- It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a…
- Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
- Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them…
- Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo