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“Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.”

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Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises was a prominent economist, philosopher, and social theorist born on September 29, 1881, in Austria, and passed away on October 10, 1973. He is considered one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and a leading advocate for free-market economics. more

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“There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.”

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Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.”

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Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.”

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Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.”

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Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.”

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Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.”

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Author:Johann Most

“Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.”

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“Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.”

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Author:William Blackstone

“If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.”

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“A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.”

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Author:Allan Gregg