All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory.
Ludwig von MisesA new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
Ludwig von MisesIf one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
Ludwig von MisesThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Ludwig von Mises