Ludwig Von MisesThinkers

Bureaucracy is an evil.

Bureaucracy is, in its methods and performance, unable to be improved or meaningfully compared with that of profit-seeking organizations.

Civilization is not something achieved against nature... it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Fascism is a form of government intervention which, by 1927, had saved European civilization. However, it was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

Fascism is an ideology grounded in a complete faith in the decisive power of violence as its highest principle.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Imaginary construction is a method of logical deduction resting on the categories of action, that is, of choosing and of setting things aside.

Imaginary construction is a method of logical deduction which asks whether the assumptions of our construction are consistent with the conditions of those actions which we want to conceive, rather than asking whether our imaginary constructions correspond to reality.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Money is the most marketable commodity.

Money is thing which serves as the generally accepted and commonly used medium of exchange.

Nazism | national socialism is an ideology that won over the German people completely by eliminating unemployment and by reducing the entrepreneurs to the status of shop managers (1940).

Plato planned a system ruled exclusively by philosophers. He wanted to eliminate all individual rights and decisions. Nobody should go anywhere, rest, sleep, eat, drink, wash, unless he was told to do so. Plato wanted to reduce persons to the status of pawns in his plan.