He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
– Ludwig von Mises
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- 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 issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. – 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
- 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
- In trees, monkeys rule;on land, lions rule;in the sky, eagles rule;in the waters, whales rule. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The fight for truth…is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth. – Vandana Shiva
- Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens. – Abhijit Naskar
- Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience-”much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens. – Charles Murray
- True greatness is not about the number of people who serve you. It’s about why and how you serve the number of people you serve. – Damilola Oluwatoyinbo
- Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. – Frederick Douglass
- What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you’ve done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all. – K Weikel
- Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it. – Idries Shah
- Poverty doesn’t make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate. – Anne Mateer
- Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law. – Lawrence Lessig
- Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them. – David Marusek
- One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. – Marcel Proust
- If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it! – Thiruman Archunan
- Thinking sure could get a fellow in a lot of trouble. Almost as much as opening his big gabber and sticking his muddy foot in it. – Gillian Bronte Adams
- If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example. – Jim George
- I feel his body pressed against mine. His heat burns against my flesh; searing, seducing. Permanently making it his. – AR Von
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- Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. – William J Federer
- Fish rule the waters,but can be caught using worms.Birds rule the air,but can be caught using grain. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea. – George Plya
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