As 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 MisesThis, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
Ludwig von MisesEvery innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.
Ludwig von MisesThe capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.
Ludwig von MisesThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Ludwig von Mises