"[Some] minds are prepared to believe anything, however preposterous, to overlook anything, however villainous, to approve anything, however obscurantist and brutally authoritarian, in order to be able to preserve intact the confident expectation that one of the most thoroughgoing, ruthless and bloody tyrannies ever to exist on earth can be relied on to champion human freedom."
—Malcolm Muggeridge, Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim, 87
"The Dangerous Samaritans: How Our Poverty Programs Injured the Poor"
"Reality, Religion and the Marxist Retreat"
"Economic Morality and the Death of a Culture"
"In the socialist system, in which all the fruits of the various individuals’ labor are appropriated by the supreme office of production management and then redistributed among the comrades without any regard for the worth of their individual contribution, there is no inducement for an individual to exert his strength... The superiority of the capitalistic system of production is due to the fact that it remunerates everybody according to his contribution to the satisfaction of his fellow men. It thus stimulates everybody, within the system of the division of labor, to exert himself to the utmost. The better a man serves others, the better for him. In the capitalistic market economy the consumers are supreme. In his capacity as a producer of commodities and services everybody is forced to serve the consumers."
—Ludwig von Mises, Money, Method, and the Market Process, 223, 221-222
10 July 2006