Ludwig von Mises: "The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it." - Economic Freedom and Interventionism
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| Ludwig von Mises | Plato was anxious to find a tyrant who would use his power for the realization of the Platonic ideal state. The question whether other people would like or dislike what he himself had in store for them never occurred to Plato. | The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science | p. 95 | Plato |
| Ludwig von Mises | Plato founded his utopia on the hope that a small group of perfectly wise and morally impeccable philosophers will be available for the supreme conduct of affairs. | The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science | p. 99 | Plato |