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.

All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.