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

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

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 from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.