It's vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. #Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought & speech
#LudwigVonMises

The #state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave
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#ludwigvonmises and the fantasy of the #freemarket. Or: Doctor Pangloss in the Lisbon Earthquake. https://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-is-wrong-with-von-mises-ludwig-not.html

This quote from the writings of #LudwigVonMises gets, in my opinion, to the heart of the matter:

"In the vocabularies of all languages the words 'capitalistic' and 'bourgeois' signify today all that is shameful, degrading, and infamous. Contrariwise, people call all that they deem good and praiseworthy 'socialist.' The regular scheme of arguing is this: A man arbitrarily calls anything he dislikes 'capitalistic,' and then deduces from this appellation that the thing is bad."

He who is #unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them
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The worst thing that can happen to a #socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends
#LudwigVonMises

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight #capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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#Consumer attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor
#LudwigVonMises

A #socialist management would be like a man forced to spend his life blindfolded
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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 be advanced against further encroachments
#LudwigVonMises

The #truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered
#LudwigVonMises

RT @mkibbe
“The essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.” #ludwigvonmises

#freedom #capitalism #objectivism #libertarian #libertarianism #ludwigvonmises

A #socialist management would be like a man forced to spend his life blindfolded
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#Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee
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The criterion of #truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it
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The only true national autonomy is the #freedom of the individual against the state and society
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#Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other
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The criterion of #truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments
#LudwigVonMises