>>83703
Here are a few:
"There is no equality in Heaven, nor for that matter in Purgatory, but there may very well be equality in Hell, where it belongs."
—Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Western Dilemma
"Freedom and equality do not mix, they practically exclude each other. Equality doesn’t exist in nature and therefore can be established only by force. He who wants geographic equality has to dynamite mountains and fill up the valleys. To get a hedge of even height one has to apply pruning shears. To achieve equal scholastic levels in a school one would have to pressure certain students into extra hard work while holding back others."
—Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn, Democracy's Road to Tyranny
"In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure. The public services are spending money only; the' insignificant income derived from special sources (for exa mple, the sale of printed matter by the Government Printing Office) is more or less accidental. The revenue derived from customs and taxes is not "produced" by the administrative apparatus. Its source is the law, not the activities of customs officers, and tax collectors. It is not the merit of a collector of internal revenue that the residents of his district are richer and pay higher taxes than those of another district. The time and effort required for the administrative handling of an income tax return are not in proportion to the amount of the taxable income it concerns."
–Ludwig Von Mises, Bureacracy
"Value is therefore nothing inherent in goods, no property of them, but merely the importance we first attribute to the satisfaction of our needs, that is, to our lives and well-being, and in consequence carry over to economic goods as the exclusive causes of the satisfaction of our needs."
—Carl Menger, Principles of Economics