It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator