In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.