A.R. Von Quotes
Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.
Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.
It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.
The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.
I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.
In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
