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Should Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive…
- 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…
- Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.
- If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
- As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end…
- 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…
- The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend,…
- 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…
- The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in…
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- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe