Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

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

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.