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• What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

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  Men, People, Liberty

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Mean, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

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  Party, Business Deals, Games

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.

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  Philosophy, War, Age

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• Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

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  Party, Government, People

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• Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.

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  Progress, Rules And Regulations, Regulation

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• We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

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  Civilization, Division Of Labor, Culture

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.120, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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 interests.

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  Division Of Labor, People, Love One Another

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

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  Evil, Outcomes, Evidence

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• Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

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  Kings, Struggle, Humble

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• Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

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  Spiritual, Business, Intellectual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

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  Civilization, Culture, Standards

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

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  Men, Today, Poverty

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• Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

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  Learning, School, Knowledge

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

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  Ideas, Political, Vices

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

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  Civilization, Decline, Theory

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• Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

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  Freedom, Business, Needs

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• The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

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  Progress, Economic History, Trends

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• The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

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  Perfect, Doe, Liable

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.89, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

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  Increase, Fortune, Grows

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

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  Reality, Wish, Different

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

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  Commodity Prices, People, Investing

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.

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  Unemployment, Effects

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.444, VM eBooks

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• 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 should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

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  Running, Attitude, Real

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for his crushed self-confidence in the solace of a 'saving lie'. If the longed-for success is not forthcoming, if the vicissitudes of fate destroy in the twinkling of an eye what had to be painstakingly built up by years of hard work, then he simply multiplies his exertions. He can look disaster in the eye without despairing.

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  Lying, Hard Work, Eye

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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