All LUDWIG VON MISES Quotes about “Giving”

“Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.”
“If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.”
“The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.”
“The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.”
“Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.”

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