The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
– Ludwig von Mises
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- This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue. – Lierre Keith
- It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. – Ludwig von Mises
- Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water. – Ludwig von Mises
- Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money. – Ludwig von Mises
- Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money. – Ludwig von Mises
- Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. – Ludwig von Mises
- Every socialist is a disguised dictator. – Ludwig von Mises
- No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want. – Ludwig von Mises
- The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. – Ludwig von Mises
- Romanticism is man’s revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live. – Ludwig von Mises
- Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop. – Ludwig von Mises
- He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them. – Ludwig von Mises
- The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration. – Ludwig von Mises
- The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power. – Ludwig von Mises
- The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. – Ludwig von Mises
- War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. – Ludwig von Mises
- Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. – Will Rogers
- The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market. – Iimani David
- We’re interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we’d market them too – Alan Sugar
- The thing is, If you try to market to everyone, then you successfully market to no one. – Amber Hurdle
- A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market. – Vijay Kedia
- Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself – instead it has everything to do with you. – Simon Gray
- Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods. – Onyi Anyado
- I’m interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is. – Bruce Mau
- First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader. – Carsten K Rath
- It is necessary to approach the study of the issue from all sides to find as much information as possible on this issue – Sunday Adelaja
- How you react to the issue, IS the issue. – Habib Sadeghi
- If you choose to not deal with an issue,then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. – Susan Del Gatto
- This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation. – Alan de Jager
- Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
- You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic. – Lewis Carroll
- The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. – Harry Browne
- A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. – Charles Wheelan
- In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue. – Arzak Khan
- Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it. – Kenneth Eade
- Pride makes us long for a solution to things -“ a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. – Julian Barnes
- To teach someone a lesson, show them how it’s done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all. – Vironika Tugaleva
- God doesn’t take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you. – Nancy N Rue