Capitalism Quote by Ludwig von Mises Download Open image “Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.” — Ludwig von Mises ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalism Economics Economy Rational Rational Economy Renunciation Renunciation Rational Socialism Socialism Renunciation
In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone. — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image