Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

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.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.