It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading (Cuhel), and not an act of measuring. It was a mistake to search for a measure of the value of goods. In the last analysis, economic calculation does not rest on the measurement of values, but on their arrangement in an order of rank.

The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.