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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

Ludwig von Mises
Life, People, Intellectual
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

Ludwig von Mises
Life, Mean, Men
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.

Ludwig von Mises
Life, Men, Alive

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