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

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather and rain.... the demand for goods is widely influenced by metaphysical, religious, and ethical considerations, by aesthetic value judgments, by customs, habits, prejudice, tradition, changing fashions, and many other things.

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.