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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
– Ludwig von Mises

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  1. 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
  2. In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails. – Ludwig von Mises
  3. It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. – Ludwig von Mises
  4. Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water. – Ludwig von Mises
  5. Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money. – Ludwig von Mises
  6. 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
  7. Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. – Ludwig von Mises
  8. Every socialist is a disguised dictator. – Ludwig von Mises
  9. 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
  10. The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. – Ludwig von Mises
  11. Romanticism is man’s revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live. – Ludwig von Mises
  12. He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them. – Ludwig von Mises
  13. The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration. – Ludwig von Mises
  14. The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power. – Ludwig von Mises
  15. The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. – Ludwig von Mises
  16. War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. – Ludwig von Mises
  17. When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn’t really want your opinion. She wants her opinion – just in a deeper voice. – T Rafael Cimino
  18. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. – Henry David Thoreau
  19. When you have no real power, go public — really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
  20. When you have no real power, go public-”really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
  21. A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live – Sunday Adelaja
  22. We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us. – Heather Marsh
  23. From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia. – John N Gray
  24. There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. – Amah Lambert
  25. My freedom to say ‘No’ directly underscores your freedom to say ‘Yes’. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom. – Mamur Mustapha
  26. Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness. – Emily Bleeker
  27. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. – Thomas Jefferson
  28. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. – John Stuart Mill
  29. Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may – Daniel Webster
  30. I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism. – Jeff Grubb
  31. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  32. An absolute law without hope of appeal that’s despotism! – Phineas Flynn
  33. When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch. – Bette Davis
  34. Always have your own opinion and build upon that. Person without opinion is just like a dead soul!!! – Santosh Adbhut Kumar
  35. Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence. – Dada Bhagwan
  36. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. – Mark Twain
  37. Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. – Anthony Trollope
  38. It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect. – Bohdi Sanders
  39. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill
  40. I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody’s opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself. – Ruben Studdard

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