He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.
Ludwig von MisesAll rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
Ludwig von MisesFor it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.
Ludwig von MisesWe must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.
Ludwig von MisesEconomic 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.
Ludwig von Mises