The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.

All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

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

An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.