A.R. Von Quotes

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

Hitler is a dancing dervish. He must be shot down.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force them to submit to his value judgments.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.

Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.