What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
Ludwig von MisesProfits 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.
Ludwig von MisesWhat mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
Ludwig von MisesWhat workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.
Ludwig von MisesAs society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.
Ludwig von Mises