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.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.