Author: Christian Malazarte

1020: F.A. Hayek – Impossible to Control Productive Resources

W1020: F.A. Hayek - Control Over Productive Resources — It is impossible to assume control over all the productive resources without also deciding for whom and by whom they are to be used. —F.A. Hayek

It is impossible to assume control over all the productive resources without also deciding for whom and by whom they are to be used. —F.A. Hayek

1019: F.A. Hayek – Psychological Change That Will Destroy Liberty

F1019: F.A. Hayek - Psychological Change — The most important change which extensive government control produces is a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people. This is necessarily a slow affair, a process which extends not over a few years but perhaps over one or two generations. The important point is that the political ideals of a people and its attitude toward authority are as much the effect as the cause of the political institutions under which it lives. This means, among other things, that EVEN a strong tradition of political liberty is no safeguard if the danger is precisely that new institutions and policies will gradually undermine and destroy that spirit.

The most important change which extensive government control produces is a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people. This is necessarily a slow affair, a process which extends not over a few years but perhaps over one or two generations. The important point is that the political ideals of a people and its attitude toward authority are as much the effect as the cause of the political institutions under which it lives. This means, among other things, that EVEN a strong tradition of political liberty is no safeguard if the danger is precisely that new institutions and policies will gradually undermine and destroy that spirit.

1018: Ron Paul – When Terrible Things Happen

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen. —Ron Paul

1017: Murray Rothbard – Forcing Man to Act Morally is Not Virtuous

W1017: Murray Rothbard - Forcing Man to Act Morally — By forcing man to act morally — in reality would deprive man of the very possibility of being moral. For no action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen. —Murray Rothbard

By forcing man to act morally — in reality would deprive man of the very possibility of being moral. For no action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen. —Murray Rothbard

1016: Henry Hazlitt – Minimum Wage Deprives Men of Work

F1016: Henry Hazlitt - Minimum Wage — You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. —Henry Hazlitt

You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. —Henry Hazlitt

1015: Thomas Sowell – Greed is Unattractive but More Efficient

W1015: Thomas Sowell - Greed is Unattractive — However unattractive greed may be, it is likely to move food and resources much faster, saving more lives. —Thomas Sowell

However unattractive greed may be, it is likely to move food and resources much faster, saving more lives. —Thomas Sowell

1014: Ludwig Von Mises – Man’s Fallibility and Moral Weakness is in Govt Too

W1014: Ludwig Von Mises - Man's Fallibility — If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. —Ludwig Von Mises

If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. —Ludwig Von Mises