Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion." Albert Jay Nock

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need." Voltaire

"The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people choose to talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them." Albert Jay Nock

"All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services." Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?" Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

"The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers." Ludwig von Mises

"What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war." Ludwig von Mises

"The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution." Ludwig von Mises

"Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune." Ludwig von Mises

"The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right." Ludwig von Mises

"More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, – it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around? But more money makes its monopolistic producer (the central bank) and its earliest recipients (the government and big, government-connected banks and their major clients) richer at the expense of making the money's late and latest receivers poorer." Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti." Sophia Loren

"The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter." Allan Bloom