Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Capitalism and Consumers
“The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people.”
Ludwig von Mises
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Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Leon Trotsky and democracy in the USSR
“Here’s to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!”
Charles Wright Mills
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Government and Finances
“The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.”
Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Ludwig von Mises: Bold Resistance Against Evil
“Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.”
Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Power, Wealth, and Celebrity
“Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.”
Charles Wright Mills
Quote by Rudolf Virchow on Medicine and Politics
“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.”
Rudolf Virchow
Charles Wright Mills Quote on Social Advantages and Elite
“People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves ‘naturally’ elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.”
Charles Wright Mills
Jimmy Carter Quote on the Measure of a Society
“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.”
Jimmy Carter
Quote by Jimmy Carter on Discrimination Against Poor People
“The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.”
Jimmy Carter
Quote by Rudolf Virchow on the Role of Science and Limits of Knowledge
“The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.”
Rudolf Virchow